At the start of the 1900s Europe was the main global power With empires such as Britain France Germany and Italy establishing colonies all around the world for example the Scramble for Africa which took place in 1884 until 1914 With imperialism and colonialism on the rise thus nationalism and militarism began to hold place in the European powers Empires such as the British and German began to compete against one another for who had the bigger military Other empires such as Austria were having trouble maintaining as a whole due to revolutions such as those of Serbia With all these conflicts in affect the world was narrowing down to a war such as WWI and it would eventually lead on to start WWII There were many differences between WWI and WWII such as warfare tactics and new technological advances Although there were many differences there were still similarities between WWI and WWII such as the similar composition of both groups fighting in the war the Axis and Allies In the beginning of WWI there were many warfare tactics used but the most notorious would be trench warfare Trench warfare consists of two armies or more on opposite sides of each other with a chunk of land in between them better know as no man s land What trench warfare consists of is two armies facing each other and shooting at one another from man dug trenches
