This document provides an overview of World War I and World War II. It discusses the key events, leaders, alliances, and aftermath of both wars. World War I began in 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended in 1918. The major powers were divided into the Allied and Central Powers. World War II began in 1939 with Germany's invasion of Poland and ended in 1945 with the surrender of Germany and Japan. Major players in World War II included Germany, Japan, Italy, Britain, the United States, and the USSR. Over 50 million people died making it the deadliest conflict in human history. After both wars, new international organizations like the League of Nations and United Nations were formed to promote
This document provides an overview of World War I and World War II. It discusses the key events, leaders, alliances, and aftermath of both wars. World War I began in 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended in 1918. The major powers were divided into the Allied and Central Powers. World War II began in 1939 with Germany's invasion of Poland and ended in 1945 with the surrender of Germany and Japan. Major players in World War II included Germany, Japan, Italy, Britain, the United States, and the USSR. Over 50 million people died making it the deadliest conflict in human history. After both wars, new international organizations like the League of Nations and United Nations were formed to promote
This document provides an overview of World War I and World War II. It discusses the key events, leaders, alliances, and aftermath of both wars. World War I began in 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended in 1918. The major powers were divided into the Allied and Central Powers. World War II began in 1939 with Germany's invasion of Poland and ended in 1945 with the surrender of Germany and Japan. Major players in World War II included Germany, Japan, Italy, Britain, the United States, and the USSR. Over 50 million people died making it the deadliest conflict in human history. After both wars, new international organizations like the League of Nations and United Nations were formed to promote
This document provides an overview of World War I and World War II. It discusses the key events, leaders, alliances, and aftermath of both wars. World War I began in 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended in 1918. The major powers were divided into the Allied and Central Powers. World War II began in 1939 with Germany's invasion of Poland and ended in 1945 with the surrender of Germany and Japan. Major players in World War II included Germany, Japan, Italy, Britain, the United States, and the USSR. Over 50 million people died making it the deadliest conflict in human history. After both wars, new international organizations like the League of Nations and United Nations were formed to promote
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A PRESENTATION ON WORLD
WAR I &WORLD WARII
PRESENTED BY- HIMANSHU GAUR SHUBHAM TIWARI YOGENDRA SHARMA INTRODUCTION TO WORLD WAR I World War I also known as the First World War, was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austrian Hungarian empire was assassinated in Sarajevo by Black hand society and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million combatants. It was fought between Allied Powers and Central Powers. Key nations in World War 1 were - Allied Powers Central powers France Germany Britain Ottoman Empire US Austria-Hungary USSR Bulgaria Serbia Treaties that led to Domino For Russia was bound by agreement with Serbia to protect her in the event of attack. The Dual Alliance between Germany and Austria- Hungary stated that if either found itself at war with Russia the other would enter the fray to provide assistance. Similarly, the Franco-Russian Military Convention of 1892 provided for French assistance should Russia find itself at war with either Germany or Austria-Hungary.
Key Events Naval War: German U-boats attempted to cut the supply lines between North America and Britain. Attacks jeopardised merchant ships. The United States protested and after the sinking of the passenger ship RMS Lusitania in 1915, Germany promised not to target passenger liners. With the dominoes starting to fall, it remained unclear what position Britain would take. The German Kaiser was inclined to believe that Britain would look to her interests first and foremost and remain above the fray - after all, she had no obvious quarrel with either Austria-Hungary or Germany, at least in this matter. Britain asked form the Indian Army, in fact outnumbered the British Army at the beginning of the war. Russian withdrawal from the war in late 1917 as a result of the October Revolution meant that Romania was forced to sign an armistice with the Central Powers on 9 December 1917.
End of War Central Powers proposed for starting peace negotiations. In December 1916, after ten brutal months of the Battle of Verdun and a successful offensive against Romania, the Germans attempted to negotiate a peace with the Allies. Soon after, the US president, Woodrow Wilson, attempted to intervene as a peacemaker, asking in a note for both sides to state their demands. The Allied counteroffensive, known as the Hundred Days Offensive, began on 8 August 1918, with the Battle of Amiens.German resistance stiffened, and the battle was concluded on 12 August.
Aftermath After the war, the Paris Peace Conference imposed a series of peace treaties on the Central Powers officially ending the war. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles dealt with Germany, and building on Wilson's 14th point, brought into being the League of Nations on 28 June 1919. Poland reemerged as an independent country, after more than a century. Russia became the Soviet Union and lost Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, which became independent countries. The Kingdom of Serbia and its dynasty, as a "minor Entente nation" and the country with the most casualties per capita, became the backbone of a new multinational state, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later renamed Yugoslavia. . Czechoslovakia, combining the Kingdom of Bohemia with parts of the Kingdom of Hungary, became a new nation. WORLD WAR II: INTRODUCTION World War II lasted from 1 September 1939 to 2 September 1945. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people, from more than 30 different countries. World War II is the deadliest conflict in human history, it also marks the first use of nuclear weapons in combat and it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. The War was fought between two alliances called Axis and Allies. Dominant members in these alliances were AXIS ALLIES GERMANY BRITAIN JAPAN UNITED STATES ITALY USSR FRANCE CHINA KEY PEOPLE IN WAR Adolf Hitler (Leader of Nazi and Germany) Benito Mussolini (Italy) Hirohito (Japan) Franklin D. Roosevelt (US) Winston Churchill (Britain) Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China). Joseph Stalin (USSR)
Poles on 31 August 1939, against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany on the eve of World War II in Europe. Later it was discovered that the Nazis themselves posed as poles, their goal was to use the staged attack as a pretext with which to invade Poland. On the very next day Germans invaded Poland marking the beginning of a war. Japan had already been busy in their second Japan-Sino war against china. On July 1937 Japan invaded china and conquered Beijing and many parts of China. Parallel to this Fascism in Italy had been dominated by the lights of Benito Mussolini. October 2, 1935May 1936 Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia. With these set ups the three major axis nations would go on and conquer the half of the world before their demise. KEY EVENTS Invasion of Poland , it Started WWII - Britain and France declared war on Germany because of it (1939). Hitler's invasion of Russia(Operation Barbarossa). Committed the Germans to 2 fronts, West and East (1941). Pearl Harbour - caused the USA to enter the war (1941). Stalingrad - beginning of Germany's defeat in the East (1943). D-Day - Allied invasion of Europe - beginning of the end for Germany (1945). Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945).
STATISTICS Estimated 50 to 80 million deaths in WWII. Almost 12.29 million people of USSR died and 6.27 million Polish lost their lives. About 2000 warships were destroyed of which 1080 were Germanys. A total of 542,000 airships and 5.1million vehicles were deployed in War. Around 1,600 billion dollar were spent on the war of which 300 billion were spent by Germans and 350 billion were spent by USA. THE END OF WAR After Allies Invade Germany Hitler commit suicide on April 30 1945. On August 6, 1945 The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima August 9, 1945 The United States drops yet another atomic bomb this time on Nagasaki and Japan surrenders to allies.
AFTERMATH The Allies established occupation administrations in Austria and Germany. The former became a neutral state, non-aligned with any political bloc. Germany lost a quarter of its pre-war (1937) territory, the eastern territories: Silesia, Neumark and most of Pomerania were taken over by Poland; East Prussia was divided between Poland and the USSR, followed by the expulsion of the 9 million Germans from these provinces, as well as of 3 million Germans from the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, to Germany. By the 1950s, every fifth West German was a refugee from the east. In an effort to maintain peace, the Allies formed the United Nations, which officially came into existence on 24 October 1945 and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, as a common standard for all member nations. The great powers that were the victors of the war.