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Table Comparing Statistics for World War I, II and III
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World War I
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World War II
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World War III
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WWI Started
July 28, 1914 |
WWII Started
September 1, 1939. 20 years, 9 months and 21 days after
the end of WWI. |
WWIII Started
March
20, 2003, exactly 555 days after Sept 11, 2001 attacks on
WTC. 57 years, 6 months and 18 days after the end of
WWII.
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Commonly Believed Cause of WWI
Strong feelings of
nationalism throughout Europe prior to The Great War
created an atmosphere in Europe which made war a
likelihood. The spark which ignited the flame and
transformed these underlying problems into a frenzy of
hostilities happened on June 28, 1914, when Archduke
Francis Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian
student, Gavrilo Princip, while visiting Serbia.
Austro-Hungary
presented an ultimatum of thirty demands to Serbia and 48
hours were allotted for their answering. Serbia agreed to
all but one: Austrian investigation of the assassination
plot.
As a result,
Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Germany declared
war on Russia (who had allied with Serbia). Two days
later, Germany declared war on France and swept its armies
through Belgium, violating its neutrality. Because of
this, England declared war on Germany. Austro-Hungary
declared war on England. And thus started WWI. |
Commonly Believed Cause of
WWII
Three years of mounting
international tension - encompassing the Spanish Civil
War, the Anschluss (union) of Germany and Austria,
Hitler's occupation of the Sudetenland and the invasion of
Czechoslovakia - provided the setting for a likely world
war.
In March,1939, Hitler
demanded that Poland allow Germany to annex the
Nazi-dominated free city of Danzig, and that Germany be
given control over a 25-mile wide strip of land between
Germany and East Germany, created by the Versailles Treaty
to give Poland access to the Baltic Sea. Attempts by the
Allies to persuade Hitler to negotiate with the Poles were
unsuccessful. After signing the Nazi-Soviet Pact, which
safeguarded his eastern border, Hitler sent his air and
land forces into Poland on September 1, 1939. Warsaw and
other Polish cities were bombed.
Britain and France declared
war on Germany (September 3) when Germany ignored their
demands to cease its attack and withdraw.
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Commonly Believed Cause of
WWIII
In his State of the
Union address and other speeches, President Bush attempted
to articulate the reasons for going to war with Iraq and
ousting Saddam Hussein. Essentially the three main
objectives: (1) to eliminate Saddam's weapons of mass
destruction (WMD); (2) to diminish the threat of
international terrorism; and (3) to promote democracy in
Iraq and surrounding areas.
However, many
believed the war was the administration's goal of
preventing OPEC's use of the Euro as an oil transaction
currency standard. In order to pre-empt OPEC, the US
needed to gain geo-strategic control of Iraq along with
its 2nd largest proven oil reserves.
Many claimed the war
was illegal (didn't obtain UN sanction) and still others
state the war was about gaining control of valuable Iraqi
oil resources. |
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The Real Cause of
WWI
According to Albert Pike, the First World War was designed to
enable the Czarist Government in Russia to be finally and
completely overthrown and replaced with a new atheist,
Communist government.
History records that this First World War did indeed occur
as predicted. The Western powers in Europe, in conjunction
with the United States, financed Lenin's expedition into
Russia, and financed his government consistently. The US
has financed Russian Communism at least once per decade
since then.
A little closer to
home:
In 1909, the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was tasked to
answer the following question posed by the US government:
"If it is desirable to alter the lives of an entire
nation, is there any means more efficient than war?"
After a year of research, the answer came back: "There are
no known means more efficient than war, assuming the
objective is altering the life of an entire nation."
And for what reason
would anyone want to alter the lives of an entire nation?
Historian Walter
Mills wrote the following about the purpose of the war and
about Colonel House's basic intent: "The Colonel's sole
justification for preparing such a batch of blood for his
countrymen was his hope of establishing a new world order,
[a world government] of peace and security...."
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The Real Cause of
WWII
The Second World War
was foreseen to originate between Great Britain and
Germany. However, one of the planned results of this war
was to strengthen the new Communist Russian government, so
that it could weaken and destroy other governments and
religions.
History again records that the Second World War did indeed
accomplish this objective. The war started when Germany
invaded Poland, causing Great Britain to declare war on
Germany. Very soon, the troika (3's) of powers were set up
to wage this war. Germany, Italy and Japan vs. Great
Britain, United States and Russia.
The Pike vision of the Second World War building Russian
Communism into a super power was fulfilled to a startling
degree. Historians have always been mystified as to how
Churchill and Roosevelt could have given away all of
Eastern Europe to the Soviets, when the preponderance of
power was clearly against the Soviets. Clearly, when
Roosevelt and Churchill ceded all of Eastern Europe to
Russia, the Communist Government of Russia, completed its
transition to a super power, exactly as Pike's vision had
foretold.
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The Real Cause of
WWIII
The Third World War
was foreseen to be between Judaism and Islam. This
prediction is incredible in many ways, beginning with the
understanding that this prediction of a third world war
occurred in 1870, a time when Israel did not exist as a
nation, and when no one believed it would ever exist
again.
The vision predicted
that out of the smoke and destruction of this World War, a
new leader will stride triumphantly, to put an end to the
War, and to finally give the embattled world "Peace and
Safety".
Interestingly, to
back up this prediction, a report was released in December
1996 by The U.S. House of Representatives' Task Force On
Terrorism And Unconventional Warfare. It was entitled,
'Approaching the New Cycle of Arab-Israeli Fighting'. In
brief, the report tells us that such nations as Syria,
Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Egypt are planning and building
for a final, devastating war of annihilation against
Israel. This includes acquiring nuclear, biological and
chemical weapons (NBC) in a mix with conventional weapons,
e.g. tanks, aircraft, and soldiers, all in massive,
overwhelming numbers." [P. 43]
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WWI Ended
11:00 November 11, 1918 |
WWII Ended
September 2, 1945 |
WWIII Ended
Only time will tell
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Duration of WWI
4
years, 3 months and 14 days |
Duration of WWII
6 years and 1 day |
Duration of WWIII
Only time will tell
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Casualties in WWI
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Germany |
1,800,000 |
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Soviet Union |
1,700,000 |
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France |
1,385,000 |
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Austria |
1,200,000 |
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Great Britain |
947,000 |
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Japan |
800,000 |
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Romania |
750,000 |
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Serbia |
708,000 |
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Italy |
460,000 |
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Turkey |
325,000 |
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Belgium |
267,000 |
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Greece |
230,000 |
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USA |
137,000 |
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Portugal |
100,000 |
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Bulgaria |
88,000 |
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Montenegro |
50,000 |
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TOTAL |
10,947,000 |
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Casualties in WWII
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Soviet Union |
25,568,000 |
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China |
11,324,000 |
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Germany |
7,060,000 |
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Poland |
6,850,000 |
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Japan |
1,806,000 |
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Yugoslavia |
1,700,000 |
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Rumania |
985,000 |
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France |
810,000 |
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USA |
495,000 |
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Austria |
480,000 |
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Italy |
410,000 |
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Great Britain |
388,000 |
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Holland |
250,000 |
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Belgium |
85,000 |
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Finland |
79,000 |
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Canada |
42,000 |
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India |
36,000 |
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Australia |
29,000 |
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Albania |
28,000 |
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Spain |
22,000 |
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Bulgaria |
21,000 |
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New Zealand |
12,000 |
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Norway |
10,000 |
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South Africa |
9,000 |
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Luxembourg |
5,000 |
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Denmark |
4,000 |
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TOTAL |
58,508,000 |
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Casualties in WWIII
If the World Trade
Center attack on September 11 2001 is considered the
trigger required to start World War 3, a total of 3,000
should be added to the figures below.
Source:
www.september11victims.com
The death count (of
mainly Iraqi civilians) so far, updated daily.
Source:
www.iraqbodycount.org
Get the latest
allied fatality count since the invasion of Baghdad
here (845 as of April 30, 2004).
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Financial Cost of WWI
$196.5 billion
(adjusted for 1990 dollar values)
Source:
www.cwc.lsu.edu |
Financial Cost of
WWII
$2,091.3 billion
(adjusted for 1990 dollar values)
Source:
www.cwc.lsu.edu |
Financial
Cost of WWIII
Some sources
estimate it at least $100 billion.
Source:
www.taxpayer.net
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Countries Involved in WWI
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
France
Germany
Great Britain
Greece
India
Italy
Japan
Montenegro
New Zealand
Poland
Portugal
Rhodesia
Romania
Russia
Serbia
South Africa
Turkey
United States
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Countries Involved in WWII
Albania, Algeria
Australia
Austria, Belgium,
Borneo
Bulgaria
Burma, Canada,
Ceylon
Chile, China
Congo, Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Denmark, Egypt
Eritrea, Ethiopia
Finland, France
Germany, Gibraltar
Great Britain
Greece, Grenada
Gilbert Islands
Hong Kong, Hungary,
India
Iraq, Israel
Italy
Japan, Korea, Malaya
Malta, Marshall
Islands
Morocco, Netherlands
New Guinea, New
Zealand
Nicaragua, Norway
Pakistan, Palestine
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Sicily, Singapore
Solomon Islands
Somalia, South
Africa
Soviet Union, Spain
Sweden, Switzerland
Syria, Thailand,
Tunisia
Turkey
United States
Vietnam, Yugoslavia
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Countries Involved in
WWIII
So far, including
suggested benefit:
Albania:
hopes to join NATO.
Australia: reinforcing ties with US.
Bahrain: cementing
security ties with US.
Bulgaria: pending NATO membership.
Croatia:
hopes to join NATO.
Czech Republic:
reinforcing ties with US.
Denmark:
reinforcing ties with US and NATO.
Egypt: extra
US aid.
Estonia:
pending NATO membership.
Great Britain: No immediate benefit, but part of a
long running doctrine that the interests of the UK are
best served by maintaining a 'special relationship' with
the US.
Hungary:
strengthening ties with US.
Italy: strengthening ties with US.
Jordan:
military and economic aid.
Kuwait:
strengthening security ties with US.
Latvia:
pending NATO membership.
Lithuania:
pending NATO membership.
Macedonia:
hopes to join NATO.
Oman:
regional security.
Poland: Will Poland's president be NATO's next
Secretary-General?
Portugal:
strengthening ties with US.
Qatar:
strengthening ties with US.
Romania: strengthening ties with US.
Saudi Arabia:
strengthening ties between Saudi security forces and the
US.
Slovenia:
pending NATO membership.
Slovakia:
pending NATO membership.
Spain:
strengthening ties with US.
Turkey: position has never been clear, and £9.4bn
in aid now in doubt.
United Arab
Emirates: regional security
United States: leading the fight against 'axis of
evil'
Source:
Guardian Unlimited
Countries critical
of Iraq War:
Canada, France,
Germany, Russia (were all banned from bidding for
reconstruction programs in Iraq), Chile, New Zealand,
Syria.
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Leaders Involved in
WWI
Alexandre Millerand, Andrew Bonar Law,
Antonio Salandra, Aristide Briand, Arthur Balfour, Arthur
Henderson, Arthur Ponsonby, Benito Mussolini, Charles
Trevelyan, David Lloyd George, Dragutin Dimitrijevic, E.
D. Morel, Edouard Daladier, Edouard Herriot, Edouard
Vaillant, Eduard Benes, Edward House, Eleftherios
Venizelos, Frederick Smith, Gaston Doumergue, George
Barnes, George Lansbury, Georges Clemenceau, Giacomo
Matteotti, Giovanni Giolitti, Henry Cabot Lodge, Herbert
Asquith, Herbert Samuel, James Keir Hardie, James Thomas,
Jan Smuts, Jean Jaurés, John Burns, John Morley, Joseph
Caillaux, Joseph Clynes, Jules Guesde, King Albert I, King
Carol, King Ferdinand, King Peter, Leon Blum, Leon
Trotsky, Louis Botha, Louis Malvy, Newton Baker, Nikola
Pasic, Paul Painleve, Philip Snowden, Pierre Laval,
Radomir Putnik, Ramsay MacDonald, Raymond Poincare, Rene
Viviani, Richard Haldane, Robert Borden, Robert Lansing,
Sir Edward Grey, Theodore Roosevelt, Tomas Masaryk, Tsar
Nicholas II, Victor Emmanuel III, Vittorio Orlando,
Vladimir Lenin, W. M. Hughes, Walter Lippmann, Weetman
Pearson, Wilfred Laurier, Will Crooks, William Joynson-Hicks,
William Massey, William Taft, William Wedgwood Benn,
Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson. |
Leaders Involved in WWII
Adolf Hitler, Albert
Lebrun, Andrei Vyshinsky, Antonio Gramsci, Antonio
Salazar, Archibald MacLeish, Benito Mussolini, Carl
Mannerheim, Chaim Weizmann, Chaing Kai-Shek, Charles De
Gaulle, Clement Attlee, Constantin von Neurath, Drazha
Mihailovic, Edouard Daladier, Emperor Hirohito, Engelbert
Dollfuss, Farouk I, Francesco Nitti, Francisco Franco,
Francois Mitterrand, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franz Epp,
Franz von Papen, Fumimaro Kondoye, Galaezzo Ciano, George
II of Greece, George Mandel, Georgy Malenkov, Harold
Macmillan, Harry Hopkins, Harry S. Truman, Heinrich
Himmler, Henri Giraud, Herman Ehrhardt, Hermann Goering,
Hideki Tojo, Invanoe Bonomi, John Anderson, John Foster
Dulles, John J. McCloy, Joseph Goebbels, Joseph Stalin,
Josip Tito, Kantaro Suzuki, Karl Doenitz, Kiichiro
Hiranuma, Kimmochi Saionju, Lord Halifax, Lord Woolton,
Matyas Rakos, Maurice Thorez, Menachem Begin, Moshe Dayan,
Naruhiko Higashikuni, Neville Chamberlain, Nikita
Khrushchev, Nikolai Bulganin, Pius XI, Pius XII, Queen
Wilhelmina, Reinhard Heydrich, Rudolf Hess, Samuel Hoare,
Sepp Dietrich, Shigenori Togo, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk,
Victor Emmanuel III, Vittorio Orlando, Vyacheslav Molotov,
Winston Churchill, Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, Wladyslaw
Sikorski, Yosuke Matsuoka.
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Leaders Involved in WWIII
Dick Cheney, Donald
Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle,
Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair |
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