How did war change from World War I to World War II?

Question

When World War I started, Europe hadn’t fought in a war involving all the major powers since Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, right? So people had an impracticable view of warfare. Can you describe how war changed from World War I to World War II? What was different?

Answer 1

I sort of disagree with your premise. Not many people were left out of the Crimean War.

Answer 2

Peopel in Europe did know war, even those alive in 1914. In 1871 the Prussians (Germans) invaded France and marched into Paris. By WWI, the European powers were all at odds again over issues of dominance. Nationalistic powers within the Hapsburg Empire started it all. In Yugoslavia Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed by a Serbian national, and WWI started. Remember that there was no "World War I" in any names, only after a few years of fighting and the realization that it wasn't going to be over quickly, did the name "The Great War" stick. "The War" or the "War to End all Wars" was what it was called up until the invasion of Poland by the Germans in 1939. Since Japan was at war with China from 1932, and Japan and Germany were part of the Axis pact, then it truly became a world war and then dubed WWII. That made the war between 1914 and 1918 World War I.

Answer 3

One of the greatest differences in WWI and WWII was the jump in weponary. In WWI, tanks and aircraft where just being introduced. By the time WWII caem around, these weapons had grown in sophistication and tactical use. Also the fact that Europe hadnt fought a major war is incorrect, as there was the Crimean war shorty after the American Civil War as well as the wars during German Unification in the 1880s and 90s. Also, in WWI there was no real "evil" empire, though Germany took much of the blame at the end. IN WWII, the peoples mindset was difference on the Allies side as they banded together to defeat Hitler.

Answer 4

Well for one thing during WWII there were more countries that actually wanted to control the whole world and they had sophisticated military "machinery" to actually accomplish it. I suppose the main change between WWI and WWII was the advancement of War Technology such as submarines and in the end the atomic bomb itself.

If WWII had dragged out just a little longer than it did, Hitler may have had the atom bomb. It was a very serious situation indeed. WWII was the "industrial high-tech" war. That is the difference. Technology.

Answer 5

Actually WW1 was the first industrialized war: nations mobilizing their entire population, equipping them with as many weapons as they could build, and then slamming them into each other with little understanding of effective tactics.
WW2 was just the evolution. Nations still mobilized, but the generals had a better idea of how to use their mechanized forces. They also realized that the better the inventions of war, the better their chances.
One note: We should also realize that murder became mechanized. Nazis (with IBM's help) used the one of first computer applications to track "undesireables". Then trains shipped the targets to factories of death: the camps.

Answer 6

weapons n tactics