Both World Wars were massive global conflicts that mobilized entire nations and caused immense costs in lives and resources. They featured new, industrialized weapons and tactics like trench warfare in WWI and blitzkrieg attacks in WWII. Both wars also saw totalitarian governments exert control over economies and populations through propaganda, conscription, and restricting civil liberties. Both conflicts included genocide as well, such as the Holocaust in WWII which killed 6 million Jews and 4 million others.

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