Semester TWO: Honors Blog

During both World War I and World War II Germany fought against Great Britain, France, Russia and The United States. Germany lost in both wars and had land taken away from it. In the First World War Turkey had a genocide going against Armenians and during the second war Germany had a genocide going against Jews? It seems to be as if World War I had some sort of influence on World War II, although WWI was mainly a war between countries and WWII was more based on Fascism and Communism, it is safe to say that there are many connections between both of the world wars, with the second war ending in more causalities and damage than the first. Both wars play a major role in the way our Economic, Political, and Social systems are ran, here in the United States and also in places around the world that weren’t directly involved in both wars.

Because of these two wars new countries were formed such as Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia formed in 1918. There was also Greece, Poland, Finland and a few others. Not only were there new countries formed but there were countries completely destroyed. These are all countries that we visit, live in, and love, which would have been completely different without World War I and II being involved. Many of the economical deals that United States has with other countries such as Japan, France, and Germany wouldn’t have been possible without both of these world wars. In today’s time we conduct a lot of business deals with the three countries named above. Before the world wars and the peace treaties that came after them it would have been nearly impossible for us to do trade materials and supplies with Japan with it having an Empire and having different rules and morals than our country it would be hard for agreements to be made. Because of the world wars Japan and Germany has done almost a complete 360 as far as the government making it possible for The United States to have the everyday supplies we use today such as technologies, food, cars, and shoes.


A lot of political affairs also come from WWI and WWII. Many terms that we are familiar with today was influenced or established between the two World wars. After WWI in 1981 a group called the League of Nations was established as a result of the treaty of Versailles. The League of Nations was created to prevent war through collective security, disarmament, and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. Another thing it was there for was to control related treaties included labor conditions, just treatment of native inhabitants, trafficking in persons and drugs, arms trade, global health, prisoners of war, and protection of minorities in Europe. The League of Nations failed because lack of a strong defense army in 1946. League of nation is very similar to what we know today to be as the United Nations. We also got many diplomacy’s established resulting in the two wars that are heavily influenced in today’s political views, a few being The Dollar Diplomacy where if a nation wants American investments then they must act in our best interest at mind. The Moral Diplomacy where we only engage with countries who share the same morals as us. An example of this is towards the beginning of World War I where the United States cut off many of Japans supplies because they were acting in ways that United States didn’t agree with. The same thing is happening currently with United States and Cuba. The United States refuse to engage with Cuba because our Countries do not share the same morals, which is the same thing as the Moral Diplomacy.