![]() ![]() The Second World War was far worse in scale, scope, and device than the Great War. Niall Ferguson in The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West offers that three factors “explain the extreme violence” of this period: “… ethnic conflict, economic volatility, and empires in decline.” The aggressors of the 1930s and 1940s – Germany and Japan, and Italy to a lesser extent, were caught in the “perfect storm” created by the desire for new territories paired with the necessity for essential resources they each lacked. ![]() The period in history which enabled the years of death and destruction known as the second of the “World Wars,” or, World War II, was systemic of a global civilization advancing towards a modern society where the myriad political, geographical, ethnic, and economic tensions of its more powerful countries became manifest in imperialistic conflict. ![]()
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