Question

3. Considering your prior knowledge, do you think WWI & WWII

are one continuous conflict or two separate conflicts?

Answer 1

To add on to the person above me well that is all true there is something else you missed. The treaty of Versailles. After WWI the Allies made Germany pay for basically the entire war. This threw Germany in the Great Depression and crippled their economy to the point were the once very respected Germans were scrapping the bottom of the barrel. The treaty also put restrictions on Germany that were in no way fair in the eyes of the public. Although Hitler’s end goal for WWII was global dominance and to wipe out the Jews and other minorities he started WWII off by telling the public he would get Germany back to being great. This is called the big lie propaganda where basically you just say something so many times people just begin to believe you. So yes they were separate conflicts but they wouldn’t exist without each other.

Answer 2

They are two related but distinct conflicts.

Step-by-step explanation:

Germany was fighting for global dominance in both WW1 and WW2, but WW2 had the added extreme layer of wanting to spread fascism and Nazism. whereas germans in the first world war wanted the whole world to be german, in the 2nd world war, they wanted the world to by ARYAN. Race, religion, ethnicity, and other "desirable" traits were a big part of WW2 (eugenics and the holocaust), but WW1 was mainly just about economic and political power