What caused the worldwars?

Question

what where the world wars caused by?Why did it spread around the whole world?

Answer 1

Well, WWI (the Great War, the War to End All War, etc.) was started by the complete collapse of diplomatic efforts and the ignition of tensions between the great powers of Europe. It wasn't really a "world war", just a war in Europe that spilled into some of the colonial areas of the European nations.
WWII was likewise started by a complete failure of diplomacy, but was the result of rising tensions over a) ideology (the fervently anti-communist, anti-deviant, anti-Jew Nazi regime) and b) economics (the US trade embargo on the Japanese Empire).
In neither case, of course, did the war start the way the military "leaders" thought they would. See the fascists in Germany and Japan thought they could continue to invade, suppress, expand and dominate throughout their designated spheres (Italy was always the weak sister in the Axis). But in the end, they ran too far, grabbed too much, and even their phenomenal and technologically superior military machines failed in the face of determined resistance (in Russia and Great Britain for the Germans and in Australia and the US for the Japanese).
Today, tensions are rising as the USA continues to invade, suppress, expand and dominate throughout our designated sphere of interest and international diplomacy seems to be reeling, if not actually comatose.
It'll be interesting to see who comes up with the technology to do more than piss the US off.

Answer 2

war has always been about power those who start wars never usually fight them. I watched a documentry which proves beyond all doubt the holocaust did not happen and before you all go mad watch it and let me know what you think it`s called one third of the holocaust. The human mind can be told lies and remember them as truth we all believed in father christmas so being told something does not make it true. I am very confussed about history as every time i look into things i am amazed at what i find did u know Churchill used the army against minners. Many people have a mind stuck in a state of infancy they need good and bad extremes but life is not like that.
I want you all 2 think about this do you believe the information we were told about the war in iraq i bet you all say we were manipulated therefore the question should be not what starts wars but how do we take away the power from the people who start them.
If there were no wmd`s and maybe no holocaust what else are we being lied to about wake up

Answer 3

The First World War was a war waiting to happen. New weapons had been devised and the political situation was tense throughout Europe. When the Archduke of the Hungarian Empire was assassinated the whole of Europe went to war. It was really nobody's fault per se but Germany got the blame because they lost and of the losers they caused the most damage on the French and British who won.
The Second World war was caused because Hitler led the new German nation to conquer many other nations. His armies were huge and he had strong allies in Italy, Japan and Spain (although they did not support him as well as he hoped). By leading half of Europe against the other half Hitler made the Second World War even bigger than the first. Japan involved China and the USA in the war too. Britain was in a bad way but had many great leaders and strong contingents from the last remnants of the British Empire. Troops from Africa, India and the Caribbean supported the UK in the fight against Hitler.

Answer 4

The historian AJP Taylor claimed (with tongue in cheek) that WW1 was caused because the trains ran on time. He meant that once armies started mobilising, the reliability of trains meant that they got to where they were going - so very little could stop the war from happening.

WW2 of course was caused by the settlement at the end of WW1, as Keynes and Marshall Foch pointed out at the time. It caused such resentment that the rise of a populist leader like Hitler was more or less inevitable. (That's not to say the Holocaust was inevitable - another leader may not have been so evil or bent on murdering Jews.)

Answer 5

WW1 was caused by a member of the Austrian/Hungarian Royal Family being killed by the Black Hand Gang in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
WW2 was caused by Germany invading it's European neighbours.
It spread across the world due to pacts between Nations.

Answer 6

Caused by country's wanting to expand their sphere of influence and colonisation, and spread to the world by treaty's signed years before, therefore if country A is invaded by country B, A's allies C and D declare war on country B, C and D then become at war with country B's allies E and F and so on!

Answer 7

Deploying the generals farewell address as his strategic ground zero, Eugene Jareck launched a front frontal autopsy of how the will of the people has become and accessory of the Pentagon. Surveying the scorched landscape of half a centurys military misadventure and misguided missions, Jareck asks how and tells why a nation ostensibly of, and by, and for the perople has become a savings and loan of a system whose survival depends on a constant state of war,

Answer 8

It's just a clash of humans. Like any other war. And hard as we try, you can't solve the world's problems to stop wars from happening every now and then. WWI was supposed to the the war to end all wars, but it didn't and in fact led to another one a generation later.

Answer 9

Humans

Answer 10

World wars were started by countries that existed under the leadership of groups, even though blame usually fell on one leader such as Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito and many more.

The reasons were greed, expansion, ethnic cleansing, prejudice, money, control and fear of being attacked first (I get you before you get me). It's like a brawl, once it starts everyone jumps in.