Although these wars occurred in two drastically different time periods, the Trojan War and World War II shared several components. Both wars were somewhat catalyzed by a single man’s desire for more power. In the Trojan war, Agamemnon, Menelaus’ brother, was appointed Commander in Chief of the army and persistently led the Greeks in war against the Trojans. In World War II, Adolf Hitler was the man whose desire for widespread power amongst Europe, along with his racism, fascism, and totalitarianism, induced war against the Allied Powers. Agamemnon and Adolf Hitler both exuded ruthlessness, as Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter’s life “to appease [Artemis],” and Hitler’s actions killed up to six million Jews and around 7 million Soviet civilians …show more content…
In the Trojan War, the Greeks devised a deceitful plan to enter the city of Troy. They constructed a large wooden horse that would contain Greek soldiers inside of it. Majority of the Greek army abandoned their camps outside of Troy and sailed to a nearby island to illude that they surrendered. Just as the Greeks hoped, the Trojans accepted the wooden horse into the city as a surrender gift. Next, at nightfall, the Greeks “inside [left] their wooden prison and [opened] the city gates to the Army, which [had] sailed back, and [were] waiting before the wall.” In one day, the Greeks shifted the outcome of the war and internally defeated the city of Troy. In World War II, the Allied Powers used deceptive equipment, such as “a phantom army commanded by George Patton and supposedly based in England, across from Pas-de-Calais; double agents; and fraudulent radio transmissions” during D-Day/the Battle of Normandy (History.com Staff). While Germans thought that the Allies would attack at Pas-de-Calais, the Allies invaded Normandy. The illusions of D-Day turned the tide of WWII because they prevented Adolf Hitler “from sending troops from France to build up his Eastern Front against the advancing Soviets” (History.com