Was World War 1 and 2 the same war?

“The Great War” was fought from 1914 to 1919. But when another major conflict happened from 1939 to 1945, the two events became known as the First World War and the Second World War.

What would the world be like if there was no war?

Of course, those years also saw the global population rise from an estimated 4.8 billion to 5.6 billion. Without war, individuals would still die from accidents, homicides, suicides at a normal rate, but it’s easy to see how the end of war would at least marginally effect population levels around the world.

Could World War II happen again?

That’s what University of Colorado researcher Aaron Clauset hoped he might find out—using math. Clauset put 200 years of data about war through a statistical analysis and came to the conclusion that a battle the size of World War II could happen again soon. His analysis was published in Science Advances on February 21.

Will the future of war be like the past?

And there’s no guarantee that the future will actually be like the past. If mechanisms that people have identified as reducing the risk of war are indeed having an impact, then the risk of a large war might be lower than the statistical model might predict.

Was the First World War the ‘Good War?

The First World War certainly plays better in the French national memory than the defeat in 1940 followed by occupation and collaboration. For Britain, the Second World War was the ‘good war’ whereas the rights and wrongs of Britain’s participation in the First World War were less clear – and are still debated today.

Why are there so many wars in the world today?

It’s plausible that a global, geopolitical dynamic is producing all of these wars. That means, if we look at the next 100 years, we can calculate the [likelihood] that we might see an event that’s that large or larger. This is just a mathematical calculation. It’s not a prediction. It’s not saying that it will happen.