The atomic bomb played a huge role in WWII. Not only did it show the power of the US but it devastated Hiroshima and Japan as a whole. It left the people in fear of what was to come and brought a new aspect to war itself. In my opinion, the atomic bomb was the biggest difference in the war and eventually changed future wars.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
WWII Changing War
World War II definitely changed the definition of war. Almost every aspect of war changed, from the weapons used to the strategy and tactics. There was a huge difference between World War I and WWII. In World War I, most of the soldier sat in trenches and would come out only to immediately get shot by the opposing side. Compared to WWII, where the use of bombs became a new tactic. Also, instead of trenches on opposite sides, soldiers would storm cities and fight there. This allowed them to control areas more quickly. This is shown by the amount of cities that were destroyed in Japan by American forces.
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We started out using clubs as cavemen, and now we have come to using bombs. War technology has developed over the history of the human race, and WWII is no different. The usage of bombs in WWII made the strategies revolving around barbed wire and trenches extinct. Many aspects of WWI were made useless because of the invention of the bomb.
ReplyDeleteYou said that the main aspect of the war that was changed was the technology used. In WWI, people would fight in hand to hand, or gun to gun, combat and, with the exception of the bomber planes, they would be at the same level and all have the same risk of death. However, in WWII, people stopped fighting using trenches and battlefields and started going into actual cities and winning wars that way. I was curious as to your thoughts on the personalism of WWII; do you think that it was more personal or more impersonal in terms of actually getting to know the enemy?
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