What started World War II?
Probably the British. It’s usually the British who are at fault when you boil it down.Like most things we Brits do, it was mostly accidental.All Hitler wanted to do was have a few local wars, for the glory, take over and oppress his immediate neighbours before invading the USSR, exterminating undesirables along the way. Which he finally got around to doing in the summer of 1941, a bit behind schedule. You could say that the invasion of Poland was going to be one last practice run. The final warm up match before the big event.In his eyes this shouldn’t have troubled either Britain or France. After all we hadn’t really kicked up a fuss when he invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 so why should the invasion of Poland in September 1939 get a different reaction.But it did.You can only make fools of us so many times before we finally say enough is enough, which we did with Poland and it just sort of snowballed from there.Willingly or not, virtually the whole of Europe and Scandinavia got involved. Italy decided that it wanted it’s own slice of the glory, in the Mediterranean and North Africa which went as well as you’d expect.Since Britain and France had empires, troops from all over the colonies were mobilised and sent to fight, soon some wouldn’t have to travel all that far either.The USSR decided it just didn’t have enough room so invaded Finland in November 1939, which almost had Britain declaring war on the USSR. Ironic considering that Finland later briefly aligned itself with Germany. (It should be remembered that the USSR had taken advantage of the German invasion of Poland, to carve a chunk of Poland off for itself).Meanwhile Japan, which had been running it’s own private war in China, decided to take advantage of the chaos in Europe and “liberate” European colonies in the far east. However, in a sudden rush of blood to the head, they also decided to attack Pearl Harbour which brought the USA into the war in December 1941A truly global conflict.
Albert Einstein said about " World war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones" what does he meant with that?
Because of him people had nuclear weapons in WWII. So he's expecting that WW III would be very devastating to human civilization. The survivors of WW III would be living in a different world. They'll basically start all over like the stone age. So the next war they'll go to would be fought with sticks & stones.
Why did the U.S. get involved in World War 2?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_the_US...
Why do we called World War a "world war"? Is it because many countries are involved? Or what?
It's a war for control of the world. The country or alliance that wins will be the dominant world power, able to enforce its will against all other, weaker countries. That doesn't necessarily mean they will control the world directly; just that nobody else would dare to oppose them. The only countries that might have been strong enough to defy them were defeated and humbled in the world war.That was the original meaning of the word when it was invented in Germany before the First World War (in German, Weltkrieg). Certain German political analysts anticipated a vast, apocalyptic struggle for civilisation between Germany and its allies on one side, and Britain and its allies on the other. When war broke out in 1914, the feeling was, "Well, the World War some of us dreaded and some hoped for is finally here after all".The word wasn't used much in English at first - the British called it the Great War, as did the French (la Grande Guerre) and the Russians (Великая война). Great, in this sense, meant 'big' - it was the largest war any of those countries had ever fought in, even larger than the Napoleonic Wars which had previously been the standard of comparison.The Americans, on the other hand, in 1914-17 usually called it the European War. Once the United States joined the war, of course, the American media could no longer refer to it as a European war: so it became the World War. That was the first large-scale use of the term in English.Soon after the Great War was over, people started asking "Will there ever be a second World War?" The answer, unfortunately, was yes; and the name was ready-made.Criticism that they shouldn't be called the 'World Wars' because only Europeans were involved is astonishingly Eurocentric. Millions of Japanese, Chinese, South-East Asians, Indians, Australians, New Zealanders, West Asians, Africans, and Americans (from both North and South America) fought and died in both wars; and there was land fighting on four continents* and naval battles in every ocean. *Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania
How was world war one different from earlier wars in which the US had been involved?
Earlier wars were usually fought to defend America from foreign attack. The notable exceptions were the Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War, although the Spanish-American War could be considered an enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine. All of these wars were fought in the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the naval operations in the Philippines as a part of the Spanish-American War. It is also interesting to note that WW1 had started in 1914, but America didn't join in until 1917. American troops acted as reinforcements for the Allied powers. This was also the beginning of our use of air power in combat. We had never used combat aircraft before, but WW1 was when we saw people like Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron. We also had to use cross-Atlantic transport vessels to ship troops and supplies to Europe. We did this one time before when Jefferson sent Marines after the Barbary Pirates, but that was a small war. In WW1 we did this on a much larger scale. In WW1, we also fought alongside numerous allied forces. We were helped out in other wars by European and Indian nations, but in WW1, we actually integrated combat operations with our allies. We also had to co-ordinate intel with them.