What are the most interesting aspects of World Wars 1 and 2?
· Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated and because of laws and allegiances the only way to solve the murder and prove their own points. So Germany and Austria-Hungry went to war against the rest of the world.
· Germany and Austria-Hungry lasted against the rest of the world for four years of fighting before they surrendered. France lasted one.
· Both sides started using chemical warfare
· Planes and tanks where just starting to get used in WWI
· WWII with Germany having to repay all the damage they did to France in the Great War they did not like the French. As soon as their restrictions on military size stopped they built it up and started WWII for revenge.
· France also did terrible in WWII forced to surrender from Germany.
2. What do you hope to learn about these wars?
· More info on how they started
· Statistics
3. How/Why are these wars important today? How do they impact and/or inform our world today? hint: think about alliances, democracies around the world, cultures, international institutions, nuclear (and other) technologies, etc.
· From these wars it formed alliances
· With great destruction, death, and money loss countries seem to avoid major wars now and compromise.
· It also changed governments for example the Bolshevik overthrew their previous government during WWI and it became the Soviet Union that were communists.
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