How was fighting in WW2 different from WW1?

While WWI was fought in the trenches and used machine guns and poisonous gas, WWII was fought using modern artillery and machines utilizing more airplanes, ships, tanks, and submarines. WWII ended with the defeat of Germany and Japan. It led to the rise of two new world superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union.

Why was ww1 more destructive than earlier wars?

The loss of life was greater than in any previous war in history, in part because militaries were using new technologies, including tanks, airplanes, submarines, machine guns, modern artillery, flamethrowers, and poison gas.

What was combat like in WW1?

When troops went over the top, they usually fixed bayonets and moved out from their trenches in a series of organized waves. Once in enemy trenches, fighting became little more than a deadly brawl with soldiers using rifles, pistols, bayonets, trench knives, clubs, and shovels to kill each other.

Do Americans think they won WW1?

Many Americans do believe U.S. involvement had a big impact on the war’s outcome. Choosing between France, the British Empire and the United States, 43\% say the U.S. ‘did the most to win World War I’. 24\% think it was the British Empire while just 8\% say it was France and 25\% don’t know.

Why was WWII the deadliest war?

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in terms of total dead, with some 75 million people casualties including military and civilians, or around 3\% of the world’s population at the time. Many civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.

Why World war 2 was the deadliest conflict ever?

It began when Nazi Germany unleashed ferocious attacks across Europe – but it spread to the Soviet Union, China, Japan and the United States. Cities were destroyed by air raids, the atom bomb was dropped on Japan and six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Over 50 million soldiers and civilians died.