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No, World War II did not a continuation of World War I. The major nations did not put the war on hold for 20 years before picking it back up. The major powers established peace during the Napoleonic Wars, which lasted from 1801 to 1803, and then resumed hostilities. From 1918 through 1939, that didn't occur.
World War II did not start on all fronts at once, in contrast to World War I. A month-long fighting in Poland marked the start of the Eastern Front. Poland battled Germany there on its own. The Soviet Union entered the fray to claim its part of the spoils in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet Pact. In several prior posts, I've discussed the motivations for that covenant as well as its several authors. The Phony War, also known as the Sitzkrieg or the Guerre de Drole, was the first conflict on the Western Front and lasted from September 1939 until April 1940. A significant leafleting effort over Western Germany marked the start of the British air operations there. The Third Reich's version of the Leaflet of the Month Club, according to one author!
As the conflict dragged on, the battle on the old fronts altered and the battle on the new fronts started. The battle on the Western Front evolved into an air and sea conflict between June 1940 and June 1944. Hitler's conquest of Vichy France in November 1942 constituted his sole campaign there. With the exception of little opposition at Toulon, the principal French naval station, the takeover was bloodless. The Western Front last witnessed a ground conflict during and after D-Day. Therefore, unlike World War I, there was a break in the ground war on the Western Front. In contrast, North Africa was a regular fighting zone from September 1940 until May 1943. Up to Italy's capitulation in September 1943, the Mediterranean maritime war dragged on even longer. So, unlike World War I, the Mediterranean and North Africa became significant battle theaters.
In contrast to World War I, the Eastern Front served as the primary front in World War II. The other European fronts paled in comparison to the Eastern Front in terms of the intensity of the battle, the number of deaths, the breadth of the damage, and the influence of the outcome on Europe and the rest of the globe. Even more brutal than World War I's Western Front was the Eastern Front of World War II. The effects of the Soviet triumph and the Nazi loss on Europe and the rest of the globe were considerably more revolutionary than the effects of the Allied victory and the German defeat in World War I. While World War I destroyed four autocracies and created several independent nations in Europe, World War II changed the political, economic, and social systems of half of Europe and many other areas of the world.
The ideological gap between the major nations was much wider during World War II. Fascism and communism, two new philosophies, emerged. Additionally, the participation of the United States was far more significant than that of France. Although Japan had a similar role in both wars (she was an expansionist), the Pacific War was more significant and well-known than the East Asia War of World War I. Japan took Germany's possessions there quickly during World War I. The outcome on the Eastern Front was very different. Germany conquered Russia in World War I, leading to the severe Brest-Litovsk Treaty being imposed on Russia. She was defeated, and as a result Russia had a significant bottom-up revolution. The Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. The Allies divided Germany into two. A significant revolution that sprang mostly from above affected practically all of Central and Eastern Europe as well as half of Germany.
In addition to the Nazi Holocaust against an entire people, the Jews, and a Nazi campaign of destruction, hunger, and cruel exploitation and enslavement against the majority of Slavs in Eastern Europe, World War II also saw the Nazi occupation of most of the Slavs in the region. No such campaigns existed during World War I. The Armenian Genocide, a World War I battle, took place outside of Europe.
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