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How Did The Wars Affect Our Lives?

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Beyond The Wars How did the wars affect our lives? War is a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state. Many wars happened all over the world and it led to many problems that the world still suffering from it. According to worldwarI/II.net, the two major or famous wars happened in the 20th century War I and War II. World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war mostly centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result of the war, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents ' technological and industrial sophistication, and…show more content…
Ultimately, more than seventy million military personnel, including sixty million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. The Second World War was arguably the most significant period of the 20th century. It brought about major leaps in technology and laid the groundwork that permitted post-war social changes including the end of European colonialism, the civil rights movement in the United States, and the modern women’s rights movement, as well as the programs for exploring outer space. The primary combatants were the Axis nations (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan and their smaller allies) and the Allied nations, led by Britain (and its Commonwealth nations), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America. The Allies were the victors. Two superpowers, the USA and USSR, emerged from World War II to begin a Cold War with each other that would define much of the rest of the century. Wars around the world must be stopped because of the big damage it causes, everyone should live in peace and it endangers us. One of the effects from wars is the big damage it causes. A major motivation behind some wars is the desire to control resources that poison the earth, especially oil and gas. Oil can be leaked or burned off, as in the Gulf War, but primarily it is put to use in all kinds of machines polluting the earth’s atmosphere, placing us all at
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