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This 4 page paper evaluates the statement that WWI and WWII are two halves of the same coin. The idea that the war might have been one war separated by time is a concept also examined. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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were similar to one another, they were each fought basically within the same states for similar reasons and in fact there were so many similarities, one could say that Lukacs
is on target. In order to understand this historians perspective, it pays to look at his writings. For example, Lukacs writes in a 1989 article entitled The Coming of the
Second World War: "The two world wars are the mountain ranges that dominate the historical landscape of the twentieth century. " The mountain ranges are symbolic of large changes
during the century. He goes on to say that with these wars, American and European history would begin to "collide" (Lukacs, 1989). Indeed, this lends a sense of greatness to
the wars as they were able to in some way pave the way for globalization. The fact that the wars were alike is implicit in the authors tendency to group
them together. In fact, some have argued that World War I and World War II were not only similar, but that they were essentially the same war. Some have argued
that the two wars were really one war separated by a time of peace. This contention provides further evidence that these wars were in fact two peas in a pod
or two halves of the same coin. In general, historians like to compartmentalize World Wars One and Two as separate and distinct, but others see the two major conflicts of
the twentieth century as two phases of one war with a long armistice in the middle. Roberts (1993) tends to lump the two together, saying that the first
of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the similarity. Yes, both wars were about
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