World Wars Compared - Warfare

1. World Wars Compared
WARFARE

2. BOTH WORLD WARS!
• Conflicts on a huge scale w/ huge costs &
global results.
• Mass produced new weapons &
technology
TOTAL WAR –
• entire Nation-states mobilized their people
and resources to win the war
use of media & propaganda, conscription,
government control of economy

12. • attacks on civilian targets
• Genocides in both wars!

13. • The Holocaust – 6 million Jews & 4
million “others”

14. World War I – Warfare
• Trench warfare
• Stalemate along the Western Front
• War of attrition

19. World War I - Warfare
• Chemical Weapons – mustard gas and
chlorine gas

21. World War II - Warfare
• Fast moving air, sea, and land tactics
• Surprise attack and covert
communications & operations

27. World War II Warfare
• Amphibious warfare (D-Day and Island
Hopping)

29. World War II Warfare
• More new weapons – including the
atomic bomb

32. World War II Warfare
• No surrender in Pacific & Soviet Union
(RACIAL WARFARE)

33. World War II experiences –
Soviet Union China