The First And Second World Wars As Global Conflict
The First and the Second world wars were global conflicts in that it involved and affected the whole globe. The main differences lay in the development of older forms of technology, the vast implications it had on the people and the countries that were involved and the time span of the war, and ideologies concerned.
Firstly, global is defined as worldwide, affects the whole world and covering a wide scope.1 Conflict is defined as a state of open, often prolonged fighting, a battle or a war, a state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interests, clash, hostility, an open clash between two opposing groups, a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of war.2 Therefore, global conflict can be defined as a war that is fought between two opposing sides, which affects the whole world and covers a wide scope of land and sea.
The First World War, rather known as the Great War' or the war to end all wars' was fought from 1914 to 1918, and affected or involved every part of the world in one way or another. There were two main opposing sides the Allies and the Central Powers, on one side stood Japan, United States, the British Empire, France, Italy, and the Russian Empire, while the other side, the Central Powers consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. As demonstrated the war involved more than half of the globe, in that the war brought in the superpowers of the world in war.
The First World War was a war that had been coming for years but needed a force to start it. The First World War was triggered by the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne who was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student on the 28th of June 1914. This event caused Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia on the 28th of June 1914 after it was not satisfied with the response of Serbia with the ultimatum it gave. This...
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