oken out and the fact that nationalism was a strong ideology influencing the young people of the time didn’t help the cause to stop it. This was the war to end all wars but by the end in 1918 countries like Germany were just left exhausted and bankrupt and much of countries like France were left in ashes. This Great war or so it was called then ended and the allies started a league of nations to prevent another war but harsh terms set upon the Germans only led to the aggression of one of the world’s most evil men twenty one years later, when Adolf Hitler was to emerge.In the twenty-one years between the two world wars there wasn’t much to do for the rest of the world except suffer the great depression and clean themselves up after World War 1. This eventually led to Hitler taking Germany and looking to build a great empire which was apposed by other nations which in 1939 marked the beginning of World War 2 which was to cost more lives than any other before it. This war went on until 1945 when it stopped and another milestone of this century occurred in the dropping of the two atomic bombs, which showed the world just how powerful man could become in the near future. It was only after this terrible war that the real horrors emerged in the cruelties of the Holocaust and the concentration camps. This time the leaders of the world vowed not to ever let something this outrageous ever happen again. The world rebuilt and ideologies came into practice once again. Strong after Germany’s defeat communist Russia was spreading socialist ideas into the world sparking the beginning of the Cold War. Which was to include many wars in places such as Vietnam, Korea, Cuba and Yugoslavia. In all these the two super powers were to be at each other’s throats without officially ever declaring war.This century has birthed many technological wonders even during the dark eras of war. However war produces technology of a darker natu...
