WWI & WWII Compared and Contrasted

Both being international wars is not the only thing in common between WWI and WWII, and more than the Holocaust in WWII, when they took place, and their names differentiate them. I will be comparing and contrasting the two wars to show this.
WWI took place from 1914-1918 while WWII lasted from 1939-1945. In between these two wars, weaponry advanced. In WWI, much of the fighting was done in closer quarters than in WWII, hence WWI’s nickname The Hand to Hand War. Also, although there were numerous deaths in both wars, there is a large difference in the total number of deaths between the two. There were about 8 million deaths in WWI while in WWII, there were about 60 million deaths.
Also, a few of the people involved in WWI also played a role in WWII, but these people’s role changed between the 2 wars. Adolf Hitler was one of these people. In the first world war, Hitler was a 19 year old soldier in the German army. Using propaganda, he rose to be the chancellor of Germany and then its leader, though he called himself the supreme leader or Fuhrer. Another example of a person’s role changing between the 2 wars is Winston Churchill. He became Great Britain's prime minister after being the secretary of defense in WWI. My final example of this is Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served in the cabinet for Woodrow Wilson in WWI; in WWII he served as president for most of the war; he died on April 12, 1945, and his vice president Harry S. Truman became president.
WWI began in 1914 when, during a special parade in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Ferdinand, who would become the king of Austria, and his wife, Sophie, were murdered; their driver had intentionally taken a wrong turn into a street where trucks trapped Ferdinand and Sophie, and Bos...

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...S. to ship supplies to Great Britain; this is why Germany sank it. Germany sank another ship during WWII, a British merchant ship; however, this is not why the U.S. became involved in WWII; the bombing of the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii was. Hitler had secretly met with Hideki, Japan’s ambassador, and said that the U.S. needed to be taken care of. The U.S. suspected the attack; however, on the morning of December 7, 1941, the United States was not prepared for the 360 Japanese planes that would bomb Pearl Harbor and kill 2300 U.S. troops. The next day Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan. Also, the U.S. declared war at different points in each: in WWI, the United States declared war about a year before it’d end in 1918, but the U.S. declared war in WWII 4 years before its end in 1945; in the beginning of both though, the U.S. wasn’t in the war yet.