World War I and how it affected World War II World War I “This war is a hideous thing,” wrote a young american private. (Stewart 7) World War I began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian nationalist. Austria and Hungary then declared war on Serbia and Germany invaded Belgium. WWI was much like any other war except for the scale factor of it. This war was fought on a geographic scale that people had never before imagined. ( Stewart 7) It stretched to every corner of the world and nobody was at peace. There was a total of twenty-seven countries on five different continents that fought in WWI. THe estimated value for the whole war was approximately $332 billion and over seventy million soldiers fought. Battles took place nonstop until 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles …show more content…
(BBC News) Germany had to take all of the blame for how much money that WWI costed. Basically, the whole entire war was Germany's fault. Adolf Hitler took this as an advantage and used the anger to rise up the power. Eventually Germany stopped paying off the war debts and they began to build their military. Once their military was strong enough they took off with the war. “The Holocaust took place in the broader context of World War II.” The Holocaust was Germany's intensified pursuit of a “Final Solution” and it began around 1939.(“Holocaust Memorial Museum”) Millions of jews were murdered and tortured because Nazis believed that it was the jews fault that they had to take the blame for WWI. Concentration camps and ghettos began to pop up everywhere. The Jews were told that they were going to be put into a safe community to live until the war was over. To pay for their housing they would have to work. Gas vans or chambers began to appear on the eastern front in the late fall of 1941. (“Holocaust Memorial