What was WWI and WWII about?
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Well, to work backwards, then forwards: The men who owned the military equipment factories and other factories, wanted to take over the world's markets.  The American businessmen and the German businessmen wanted to conquer the world, but the Germans got greedy and wanted it all, so we split.  This is what caused the war with Germany and America.  Japan was allied with Germany, as was Italy and Mussolini wanted colonies in Africa, as did Germany.  The United States put an oil blockade around Japan, which in Napoleon's time was considered an informal declaration of war, so Japan bombed Pearl Harbon on December 7th, 1941.  \n Before that, General Motors made Tanks for the Germans and engines for one of their fighter bombers, (the JU-88, I think).  Germany had a Steel Empire called KRUPP steel.\n  This steel company financed Hitler and later used slave labor in the war. Krupp steel also built steel mills in Japan, which were used to make Japanese weapons, guns, cannons and aircraft carriers.  After the war, that steel company was called Mitsubishi steel, which now makes automobiles.  Krupp steel was divided up into 68 companies after the war.  \n  World War I was also financed by Krupp steel, which made a lot of money selling guns and cannons to the government.\nIt involved Trench Warfare, and almost became a stalemate, since until the Tank was invented, there was no way to go across No Man's Land to attack the enemy with enough force to destroy him. \n  By the way, in 1916, an epidemic of flu broke out which later became the Pneumonia Pandemic of 1918, which killed millions of people and is supposed to come back any year now, (but Bird Flu has taken the spotlight in the news.)  But the bad weather and unsanitary and unhealthy conditions in the trenches gave the soldiers this sickness in WW1.\n  For the causes of World War I and World War II, we have to go back a long time.  The land called Alsace-Lorraine, in France now, has/and had iron ore and coal.  During the Black Plague a lot of people left this area and a man named Krupp bought up 243 deeds.  About two hundred years later, one of his descendents started making iron, and later, an heir wanted to make steel, and learned how to do that.\n  With this steel he first made spoons, but they were too small for him to sell in Austria.  He later started making gun barrels, and made a lot of money selling gun barrels.\n  At that time cannons were made out of brass, and brass cannons start to melt when they are fired too much.  The land where the steel was made was in what used to be called Prussia, which had a king named Frederick the Great, who was a Despot.  A despot is an isolated, individual will who is unchallenged.  Frederick the Great was considered educated, or Enlightened.  Other examples of a despot are Catherine the Great of Russia, and Louis XIV of France, Hitler, Stalin, and Franco.  Also, Henry VIII could be called a despot.  Anyone that says The State is Me, or I am the Law, who can have your head cut off if you disobey them, is a despot.  In a democracy we can challenge despots because we have the Bill of Rights, which allows freedom of assembly, and of speech, and of belief, etc.\n  Also, we have three branches of governement, so each branch checks the other to keep it from becoming despotical.\n Otherwise the President would be a despot.  But the people must maintain eternal vigilance to preserve their Liberty.\n  And other people do not have our system of government.\n France lost Alsace-Lorraine to the Prussians in 1871.  France got the land back after WWI, at Versailles.  The Germans took it over from the French when it invaded France after it invaded Poland, Austria, and cut Czechoslovakia in half.  If France had resisted with 3 divisions it could have stopped the german advance.  If the german tanks had not stopped to call Berlin for directions, they could have gone all the way to the Atlantic the first few days without any resistance.  The german c
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For a general article about war, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War.  You can search more specifically there as well.
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WWI Peace Settlement\n\nhttp://www.studyworld.com/newsite/ReportEssay/History/WorldWars%5CWWI_Peace_Settlement.htm
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Both during WW1 and 2
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Germany was doing poorly after WWI. They were faced with the entire debt of that war. The economy was falling apart and they needed a strong leader to pull it together. Hitler spoke of socialism, which is a great idea! But, it is impossible because of people's nature. He sold it on that, and got power.
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Someone in a forum wrote that it first came about in the US in a novel in 1921, and was also related to fighter jets in WWI. I don't know how valid this is, but feel free to check it out at the link below.
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A large part of the world wars (both) was the growth of the "fatherland" (der Vaterland), and the spread of the german way of life.  A big idea is "doing it for the people". There is also some of the idea of "they brought the fight to us" (by messing with us/ allies), even though that might not have been true (propaganda is about what you make people believe, after all).  Some of the later propaganda was also aimed at the Americans, trying to convince them to go home, that it wasn't their fight.\n\nYou can focus on the soldiers, but a lot of propaganda stayed at home telling the farmers/workers to keep up/ increase their production so the people/soldiers won't suffer, as well as the anti-propaganda against the other nations.
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Here are a couple:\n\n1. Development of Canadian nationalism:\n\nDespite all of the people that Canada lost in the First World War, there were many battles in which Canadians fought valiantly. Canadians became known for their bravery and strength, and we began to see ourselves as a nation separate from Britain, capable of accomplishing our own goals. Specifically, you should look into the battle at Vimy Ridge and Ypres.\n\n2. The war caused women's roles to start to change. Look for facts about:\n\n-More Canadian women in the workforce.\n-The Canadian suffragist movement.\n\nPerhaps you might also want to say something about how the war was a pre-cursor to the Roaring Twenties in Canada, or how the war helped us to industrialize.
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Which War?  WWI or WWII?\n\nBoth were VERY costly for each side and neutral shipping in general.  The loss rates above are a great start.\n\nThere was also the overall defeat of the German surface navy in both wars, the siege of the Murmansk route to the USSR in WWII which showed a critical vulnerability of that country.  Then there were the German Commerce Raiders which were civilian ships transformed into privateers.  These sunk several ships, but were hunted down eventually.\n\nAlso, WWII saw the introduction of the escort carrier as a means of convoy protection, improvements in SONAR and anti-sub warfare, use of maritine patrol bombers (the ancestors of the UK's Nimrod and USN's P-3 Orion aircraft), the use of supply subs (German 'Milch Cows'), and several other innovations.
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WWIII was the cold war with the Soviet Union.  We won.\n\nThis is WWIV, and it has already started.  It does not require two superpowers to be at war.  Two incompatible ideologies will do it too.
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What did world war did ?\nIt set the stage ready for WW II , it put the world in a very severe economical crisis, had the dead as result for millions of men, the outbreak of the Spanish flue was spread around the world with the return of the solders to there country's in 1918. \nIt also had as effect that many things where faster developed that normal like the airplanes for example.\n\nto Wetlake 85 Belgium didn't attack Germany we just defended our country because Germany invaded our country  \nThe invasion of Belgium had as effect that England declared the war to Germany because England was the protector of Belgium at that moment. \n Luxembourg was also invaded at the same moment as Belgium because Germany needed the space to develop there Von Schlieffer plan.\nI have the impression that you're high school world history teacher need to do some study
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The First World War, or (before 1939) the Great War, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice on November 11, 1918. The Allied Powers (led by the United Kingdom, France and until 1917 Russia , and, after 1917, the United States) defeated the Central Powers (led by the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire). \n\nThe Allies won.
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Here are some sites dedicated to WWI.  Any library should have some good books that will give you the information you need.  Any history book that covers that time period might be a good place to start. \n\nGood luck with it.
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basically it means that the majority of the countries of the world were at war. The first world war was against germany. \n\nUSA, and Europe, Africa, etc. were fighting to remain free.
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there are a lot of events in WWII. \n1.) Pearl Harbor\n2.) Battle of Britain\n3.) D-day\n4.) Atomic bombs\n5.) Battle of the Bulge\n6.) V-E day\n7.) V-J day\n\nJust to name a few!
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ww2?? Your question is a little vague.
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America's role in WWI was not as large as it was in WWII (although in both wars the U.S. entered the war late - for more information I would compare the information between the two wars check here for a start http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_states_of_america#World_War_I_and_II\n\nGood Luck!!!