World War I and World War II

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World War I and World War II
During the 1900’s two wars broke out among the nations, World War One and World War Two. These wars brought about famine, debt death and even freedom. Although some of the results were the same, they were fought with significant different war tactics.
World War one was caused by one major factor the Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. This happened June 28, 1914 He was the Archduke of Austria-Hungry (Hartford). While World War Two was caused by an agreement between United States, France, England, and Italy. This agreement made Germany pay for all war damage throughout the nations that World War One affected (Weapons). World War One expanded to many nations, Austria-Hungry, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, United States, and Belgium. The nations leaders allied among one another, (United States with France, Britain, Russia, Italy, and Japan, they were also known as Allied Powers. During the arrangements of the Allied Powers to ally, Germany, Austria-Hungry, and Turkey became the opposing forces known as the Central Powers (WWI and WWII).
Word War I four years, 1914 to 1918 and caused millions of deaths with the weaponry used. The military on both opposing forces doing trenches in a zig-zag patterns to keep from being shot on even terrain. These trenches were a prominent cause for the death toll of World War One to be not as high. Military personnel would bring artillery, such as: machine guns, grenades, and revolvers in the trenches, and fire them at the opposing military (Weapons). Tanks were also used to bring about destruction. In this time period Tanks had a huge contribution to World War One. They would damage anything with in a mile radius including people (Hartford...

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Both of these wars caused mass destruction and millions of families to suffer.

Even though the Wars had different leaders and were fought differently, the wars had

fantastic out comes.

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