It was a struggle between Europe's great powers, to show each other"s military might. Austria-Hungary just did not want to resolve the problems using peaceful means and just wanted to win Serbia in a physical conflict. The Allied Powers won after 4 years of bloodshed.

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             As they say, Man never learns from his mistakes. World War Two soon erupted in less than twenty years. It was a war of even great scale, with battlegrounds all over the globe. It was not only a power struggle between Europe"s great powers but also Asian powers. This was truly an even greater war than World War One. Hitler wanted more land, resources and power to his country and people, so he went to war and took over what he wanted. In the end, the Allied Nations defeated him.

             Apparently, by look at both World War One and World War Two, we can see that the Allied sides won both the wars. But at what cost, may I ask? By examining World War One statistics, the Allied Powers had casualty rates of about 22.1 million people while the Central Powers had casualty rates of only about 15.4 million people. Personally, I do not see the Allied Powers as winners, they might have won the war, but they have a very much higher (about 10 million!) casualty rating which should actually make them bigger losers than the Central Powers since the Central Powers lost lesser men in combat. No one wins, everybody loses, that"s what I see. How can a country claim to be the winner when it has lost millions of precious lives of its citizens? How can a winner be a winner when he has annihilated millions of lives of his opposition?.

             When we look at World War Two, to prevent a long, bloody invasion of Japan and to end World War Two, President Truman coerced Japan into surrendering by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with two nuclear bombs, killing about 150,000 people and many more suffered from the effects of nuclear radiation if they are not dead.