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Compare/Contrast Essay
by Chris Gaillard

I have been brought to my knees from both good and bad situations. We all go through trauma in our lives and if you haven't yet, consider yourself lucky. Those traumas change your life in a way you can not believe. Only the strongest are able to get back up on their feet and move forward.

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Some people are ust built that way. They run towards the fire and the screams. !or a long period of time, I thought I lost that. It ust took me a little bit longer to get back up.

". It took me some time to come up with a topic that I wanted to write about. I did not want to write about something that did not interest me. So I decided to come up with ideas about the military. !rom there it went to the different wars that the #nited States has been apart of. I finally came to the conclusion to do the two biggest wars that the #nited States has been apart of. Those being World War one and World War two. $. What I want the reader to see in this piece is that the #nited States played a big part in winning both of theses wars. Without them, the landscape of the whole world would be different. I also want them to see that the #nited States did not want to go to war either time. They had no choice in the matter. %. I mainly used internet sources for this article. &owever I did use a lot of knowledge that I have in this article. I was a big history buff in high school and I still love to learn about history. '. I use a (acbook and it saves my files to a word document. I am not sure if it messes with the spacing or not by doing so. I noticed in the rough draft you returned to me, the work citied page was not lined up at the top of the page.

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)hris *aillard +rofessor ,renda Stephens -nglish "." "/ 0ovember $."% 1ifferences between World War I and World War II The obvious differences between the two World Wars would be they took place at different points in time. The first World War started in "/"' and ended in "/"2. The second World War started in "/%/ and ended in "/'3. &owever there are some pretty big differences in the wars as well. Some of them involve the countries that were involved, and even where some parts of the wars were taken place. &owever the biggest part of theses wars, was the impact the #nited States made on both of them. The countries that fought on the same side in WWI fought on the same side in WWII for the most part. One of the countries that switched was 4apan. 1uring World War I there were the )entral +owers and the 5llied +owers. 1uring World War II there were the 5llies and the 56is. The )entral +owers had *ermany, 5ustria7&ungary and the Ottoman -mpire 89World War I:;. The 5llied powers had *reat ,ritain, !rance, <ussia, Italy and 4apan 89World War I:;. The #nited States were also apart of the 5llied +owers, but did not oin them until "/"=. There were not as many countries involved in World War I as there were in World War II. The 5llies in World War II, had the Soviet #nion, #nited States, #nited >ingdom, )hina, !rance, +oland, )anada, 5ustralia, ?ugoslavia, *reece, ,elgium, 0etherlands, 0ew @ealand, 0orway, South

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5frica, ,raAil, (e6ico, and )Aechoslovakia 8,arrow;. The 56is side consisted of *ermany, 4apan, Italy, &ungary, <omania, and ,ulgaria 8,arrow;. In both of the World Wars the 5llies won the wars. In World War I there was over %3 million casualties combined between the two sides. 1uring World War II, the 5llies had a total of %/,/B%,=.. casualties alone 89-stimated War 1ead World War II:;. 4ust one side of the war had more deaths than the previous World War. With the 56is death toll added, there was a total of '2,$%",=.. deaths in World War II. With more countries being involved in the war, there was bound to be more casualties. &owever a lot of the casualties were because of the #nited States using the bomb to end all bombs. World War I began because of a Serbian that killed the heir to the 5ustro7&ungarian -mpire 89World War I:;. 5 big part of the cause of World War II was because of World War I. The devastation caused by World War I left all of -urope in ruins. 5 man by the name of 5dolf &itler came into power in *ermany. &e created the 0aAi party and became <eich )hancellor in "/%% but anointed himself !uhrer, which is the supreme leader. &itlers goal was to dominate the whole world. &itler began to rearm *ermany secretly during the "/%.Cs. ,y "/%/ his army was fully armed and the Soviet #nion signed a 0onaggression +act that *ermany would break later on in the war. In both wars the #nited States wanted to stay out of them, but we were forced into the battle. In World War I, the #nited States declared war because *ermany would not withdraw the submarines they had in the 0orth 5tlantic and the (editerranean 8D(ilestonesE "/"'F"/$.D;. *ermany also planed on getting with (e6ico to form an alliance to attack the #nited States 8D(ilestonesE "/"'F"/$.D;. In World War II, the #nited States entered the war because they were attacked on their home soil. There were hundreds of 4apanese pilots that attacked +earl

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&arbor. They destroyed eight battleships, $.. airplanes, and killed over $,... 5merican soldiers 8DWorld War IID;. )ongress declared war on 4apan with only one member of )ongress not voting in favor for it 8DWorld War IID;. The attack on +earl &arbor was the biggest attack on #.S. soil up until the attack that happened on September ""th, $..". There were several turning points in both wars that were in favor the the 5llies winning the wars. 1uring World War I, the armistice that was signed in "/"2 was the turning point of that war. 5 few months later they signed a treaty called the Treaty of Gersailles 89World War I:;. 5s a result *ermany had to take responsibility for the war and had to pay $$B billion <eichsmarks in reparations which was later reduced to "%$ billion 89World War I:;. *ermany also lost ten percent of its territory because of the treaty. 1uring World War II, there were two big turning points in the war. The first one was 17 1ay on 4une Bth, "/''. The 5llies attacked several beaches that they had codenamed, *old, 4uno, Sword, #tah, and Omaha. 5ll of the beaches were in 0ormandy. 5ll of the beaches went as planned with the e6ception of Omaha. They took Omaha beach but there was a lot of resistance at the beach. !rom there they took back 0ormandy and were going towards !rance 8DWorld War IID;. ,y 5ugust "/'', the 5llies had already secured +aris and removed *ermany out of !rance. !rom there they would plan an assault on *ermany. The following year, the 5llies took *ermany and &itler committed suicide along with his family 8DWorld War IID;. This took *ermany out of the war and left 4apan to fight for themselves. ,y the time the *ermans were out of the war, the #nited States had finished the (anhattan +ro ect. This pro ect ended the war and has been very controversial. The #nited States successfully built an atomic bomb. The #nited States wanted 4apan to surrender but they would not. So the #nited States choice &iroshima as the first target of the atomic bomb. There

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were over %3.,... people that lived in the city. The #nited States dropped the atomic bomb labeled as 9Hittle ,oy: on the city. -ven with the atomic bomb going off, 4apan would not surrender. So the #nited States would drop another atomic bomb that was called 9!at (an.: This time the target was a city called 0agasaki. 5fter this attack, 4apan surrender on 5ugust "3, "/'3. They did not formally sign agreement until September $nd. 1uring the two wars, there was different weaponry that was used. The biggest difference would be the nuclear bombs that were used in World War II. In both wars they used similar weaponry. They used everything from rifles, pistols, tanks, grenades, and even flamethrowers and bayonets 8Hlewellyn, Southey, and Thompson;. 1uring World War I they used some type of gas in the trenches. Overall the two wars had a lot of the same countries involved. The death tolls in both wars were far too high. So many good men and woman were lost in both of the wars. The 9good: sides won both of the World Wars and the #nited States did not get involved until they were directly threatened or attacked. The #nited States played a huge role in helping win both of the wars as well. Without the #nited States, all of -urope would have been taken over by the *ermans and the 5merican people may even be speaking *erman instead of -nglish. 5fter the big wins of the two World Wars, the #nited States became a big power house as far as armies go. Instead of sitting back and waiting for something to happen, the #nited States goes in head first. 0o longer are they sitting back, they are taking action when action is needed.

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D-stimated War 1ead World War II.D warchronicle. 0.p.. Web. ". 0ov $."%. Hlewellyn, 4eniffer, 4im Southey, and Steve Thompson. DWeapons of World War I.D alpha history . 0.p.. Web. ". 0ov $."%. #nited States. #.S. 1epartment of State Office of the &istorian. MILESTO ES! "#"$%"#&'. Web. DWorld War I.D History. 0.p.. Web. ". 0ov $."%. DWorld War II.D History. 0.p.. Web. ". 0ov $."%. DWW" )asualties.D ((I )acts. 0.p.. Web. ". 0ov $."%.