Global Conflicts 1900-present day

Causes of WWI

SHORT TERM:

-assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand

-war with Austria-Hungary vs Serbia

LONG TERM

-Militarism: large armies, arms race

-Alliances

-Imperialism: empires and competition for colonies+resources
-Nationalism

Conducting WWI

New tech

-poison gas, machine guns, airplanes, tanks, submarines

New strategy: trench warfare-stalemate

Total War(everyone gets involved

-women worked in factories

-propaganda

-gov manages economy

Causes of WWII

Europe

-rise of fascism: italy, germany

-economic effects of great depression

-treaty of versailles

-german militarism+expansion

-invasion of poland

Asia

-expansion

-invasion of chinaMass

Mass atrocities

wwI-armenia: 15-20mil dead in ottoman empire

wwI-japan: invasion of china→1mil+ died

ww2-ukraine: 5yr plan→7-10mil dead

-ww2-nazi germany: 6mil jew died + 5mil others