How did the legacy of World War I influence the course and nature of World War II?

The United States lost 675,000 people to the Spanish flu in 1918-more casualties than World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. Dec 19, 2013 ... The way historians have viewed the causes of WWI has changed in the hundred years since war broke out. This article explores the origins of ... Jun 28, 2014 ... Una ventana abierta al mundo político y social. The lie that started the First World War. Sábado, 28/Jun/2014. Tim Butcher. The Telegraph. The killing of Franz Ferdinand eventually led to the start of the First World War — and 30 million deaths. How could the death of one man (and his wife beside ... Sep 13, 2014 ... Most historians agree that the event that started World War I was the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28th, 1914. July Crisis: The World's Descent Into War,. Summer 1914. BY THOMAS OTTE. Cambridge. University Press, 2014, 555 pp. $29.99. The Cambridge History of the First ... How does their experience of the First World War vary among these letter writers? What training was carried out before they were sent to fight? How did the men ... The airplane had been invented only 11 years before the war began. At first Germany used floating aircraft called zeppelins, rather than airplanes, to bomb the ... Once World War 1 began, this started to change. There was a significant ... This is yet another example of how the First World War forever changed the way ... Apr 16, 2011 ... All major belligerents were rapacious imperialist powers and equally guilty, argues historian and MHM Editor Neil Faulkner.