Semester Two. Blog #14

1. What are the most interesting aspects of World Wars 1 and 2?
WW1:
Nine million died on battlefield.
The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Black Hand was last straw and set off the War.
Reason that US entered the war was because Germany send a letter to Mexico offering them to join their side.
116,000 soldiers of US army died in a short period of seven months
WW2:
The treaty of Versailles and thanks to the great depression caused WW2.
Hitler was involved with WW1.

2. What do you hope to learn about these wars?
I would just like to learn how this wars connect to us today. How can this have shaped our economy? Also just like a quick overview of both wars, just to refresh my mind, I have short term memory loss so I forgot some key points of the main points.

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.
The only importance that I can think of is how violent the countries got with each other. They invented weapons that were very threatening, a whole new era of weapons were born.

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