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  • Almost all of us were taught, and believed, that winning WWI was a good thing for the US, although this idea was not universal at the time and even into the late thirties the war was widely viewed as a mistake. (Source: Gallup poll quoted in Since Yesterday, a popular history of the 1930's, by Frederick Lewis Allen.) Why would so many people have thought that way? Aren't Americans always on the side of the angels? Just look at the results of our winning that war. Germany allowed Lenin, a known and dangerous criminal--the Bin Laden of his day, a communist terrorist--to cross Germany in a sealed railroad car so as to start a revolution in Russia and take Russia out of the war. So result #1: Communism and the Cold War. One hundred million murders. 30,000 nuclear warheads, some of which are missing. The Soviet Union, the greatest ecological disaster in history. Result #2: France & Britain demanded that Germany, already exhausted by the war, pay for the damages, so Germany was terribly impoverished. The government paid for its necessary outlays not by taxation, which was impossible--you can't get blood from a stone--but by counterfeiting, which is what inflation caused by government is. This caused the economy to collapse, leading directly to the rise of Hitler. So result #2 was Adolf Hitler, Naziism, the Holocaust, World War II--and the development of nuclear weapons, which still might not exist but for World War I. Result #3: Islamist radicals learned about terrorism and totalitarianism and increased their anti-Semitism by contact with Nazis, who would not have been in power but for WWI. I wish I could document this for you but can't remember the reliable source where I read it. So now we are in a clash of civilizations, and no one knows what the future will bring. I rest my case: Our winning of WWI was the single most horrible event of the Twentieth Century. If we, the Kaiser, and the British had done differently (I don't see how the French could have done differently) we would be living in a much different world, and it's hard to see how the world could possibly have been worse off.
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  • It brought about the mechanization of killing machines which was negative. On a positive note it brought about the downfall of Monarchies throughout Europe. On a negative aspect, the fragile Wehrmacht government soon got subverted by history's most famous tyrant.
  • WWII had both positive and negative outcomes, but those positive outcomes still don’t justify the number of people that died due to it. Its positive outcomes include many advances in technology in this areas; Weaponry, Logistical support, Communications and intelligence, Medicine and Industry. The new weapons were primarily for the war on land, tanks; on air, airplanes; and on water, submarines; but the most impressive and destructive was the atomic bomb. Computers and radars were invented, canned food produced for soldiers, first ever used by the French and penicillin discovered to treat wounds and bacterial diseases. Also allowed for the opening of new economies, end of colonial system, social advancement, increased knowledge of other countries through the surviving soldiers and diplomacy was given a higher priority than waging war. The negative outcome of the war, and the holocaust itself, is the death of millions of men, women and children. Due to the great cost of the war, many economies suffered after it ended.

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