Effects of War

Effects of War

It is easy to understand how a single thread can trigger an entire fabric to come undone but for an assassination of one man to result in a world war seems intriguing and perhaps exaggerating . But it did happen and for the first time , the fabric of global peace unravelled . Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was killed in Serbia Austria declared war on Serbia , and the battle turned into a bloody war (Garraty 8150 . The first global war altered Europe with some empires ceding territories to both new and

existing nations . Just as Europe and its allies , particularly America , was struggling to rebuild , another battle emerged , this time involving not only Europe and America but Asia-Pacific as well . Is World War II a continuation of the First World War or a new conflict altogether

When the First World War , or the Great War for Civilization as it was known , transpired , people initially thought it was not really a global war but a discord limited to Europe (Wiener et al 286-287 . After all the countries involved were located in Europe and from an initial assessment it seemed like a local threat . But after the United States joined the fracas , it became a global battle . After all , during this time , some European countries had extended their territories outside Europe , holding colonies in Asia , Africa and the Caribbean . Thus , in the midst of the World War I , Asian , African and Caribbean militia were fighting in honor of their European mother...