The history of mankind rolls forward, looking back, in addition to the brilliant development, there are devastating wars. In fact, because of the different beliefs and ideas, the war between different races is inevitable, but when it comes to the scale, "World War I" "World War II" tops the list, the two wars lasted 4 years and 7 years respectively, tens of millions of casualties, trillions of dollars of armaments invested in the war. The history we see today is the result of tens of millions of casualties and trillions of dollars in armaments.
In terms of casualties, World War II had far more than World War I, with more than 70 million dead and 130 million wounded. In terms of armaments, during World War II, countries experienced high speed development, and the level of technology they possessed was not comparable to World War I. However, in terms of tragedy, World War I far exceeded World War II.
Backward weapons, making the battlefield situation more miserable
World War II, a variety of new weapons came out, such as heavy bombers, aircraft carriers, in order to improve the lethal performance at the same time, but also let the infantry firepower is more powerful, can be a period of World War I, the offensive weapons are more backward, for the enemy to solidly defend the fortress, in the heavy machine gun under the blow, basically, there is no good way to overcome the difficulties. Can only rely on human charge, seize the opportunity to strike.
How do we evaluate the degree of gruesomeness, in fact, here involves humanitarianism, in high-tech weapons under the one-strike kill, and human flesh killing, flesh and blood of the view naturally different. In World War II, there were very few field confrontations, and with tanks and artillery, ordinary fortifications were of little use.
In World War I, this kind of scene is more common, even if the casualties in a day more than ten thousand, the enemy and our positions, and can not quickly forward and backward. Especially from the mode of attack, the moment the charge horn sounded, countless soldiers U press forward, in the deafening shouts, in the face of the invincible heavy machine guns fell into a piece, it is miserable, such a scene, has long been not the battlefield, countless soldiers as if in the slaughter, forward and backward, can not do anything about it.
Some of the soldiers who survived the injuries lived in the trenches all day long, but the shortage of supply of medical troops, and could not let them get timely treatment, so the boundless despair and pain, many soldiers did not survive the end of the rotting and stinking body, accusing them of unfortunate life.
This situation, maintained for up to four years. more than 40 million people in France lost 1.365 million young adults, a generation of young people almost consumed, France at that time is still considered a strong country, but also fell to this. What can victory mean under a large-scale, reckless war, the horror of death and destruction is destined to become an irreversible end.
Lack of international rules constraints, World War I used a large number of chemical weapons
The increasingly grueling war scenes, so that the soldiers' spirit began to break down, the meaning of the war as if it also began to blur. Although the death toll of World War II was high, it was spread out due to the long timeline, and would not have seen the unprecedented scale of World War I's bloody battles, where the number of casualties was staggering in just a few days.
Under the state of frenzied war seeking, many countries began to frantically expand their armies, there is a huge military power to add, the Allies and the Entente in order to win, forcing soldiers to rush out of the trenches, for the so-called country to fight. The idea of victory was constantly pushed, and chemical weapons with incredible lethality were created, the most representative of which was mustard gas.
According to relevant statistics, up to 12,000 tons of mustard gas was used in the war in World War I, with casualties reaching 1.3 million.
Unlike ordinary chlorine gas, gas masks were of no use at all to defend against this gas, which entered the human body through the skin or the respiratory tract, and in order to defend against it in time, many soldiers and civilians were required to wear gas masks, eyeglasses, and bindings for long periods of time, but at that time the equipment was outdated, and the gas masks were simply not as convenient as they are today, and once they were put on, it was a prolonged ordeal in the turbid internal air and constant high temperatures, and many people were forced to wear them. Once the masks were put on, it was a long ordeal, and in the turbid internal air and constant high temperatures, many people fell into a state of collapse, and some soldiers even committed suicide.
Not only that, after attacking the crowd, the mustard gas did not automatically decompose, but continued to remain, causing serious pollution of the environment. Toward the end of the war, the use of chemical weapons became more widespread, and as many as 20 percent of the German soldiers killed in action died from mustard gas.
No winners at the end of World War I, which changed the world
In a larger "tragic" sense, if since the 19th century, the Western powers have risen up side by side, after World War I, this situation can be said to have changed completely. Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire fell into the shadow of disintegration, and the mighty German Empire ceased to exist. The price paid by Britain and France as the so-called "victorious nations" was also very high.
The "Sunset" empire went into decline, and France fell into a long recovery period. Instead, the rise of the United States, before the First World War, the strength of the United States is still in the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Russia under the U.S., turned into a "fisherman", sit and watch the snipe after the first in the world.
The war even affected the course of human civilization, causing the decline of all European countries. At this time to look back at the significance of the war, rather than the inevitable development of history, the old countries and ideas are destined to be abandoned by the times, bloody killings and tragic war, as if by the fire burned out of the forest, is destined to grow a new generation of life and the country. Whether it is the United States, Japan, have taken this opportunity to be among the powerful countries, and then write the process of world history.