Part 2: Ten Facts About World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War

     Hello everybody and welcome back to part two of the series! We'll be talking about three major wars, World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. Let's dive into it!

     World War I:

1. The Germans were the first to use flamethrowers in war. They could shoot flames up to 130 feet.
2. Sixty-five million men from thirty countries fought in World War I. Nearly ten million of those men died.
3. 2/3 of deaths in World War I were in battle. The main cause of death in other wars was typically disease. 
4. Dogs played a very important part of World War I. They were used to carry messages and lay telegraph wires.
5. Tanks were initially called "landships".
6. When tanks were first invented, they were made to look like water tanks, hence the name "tanks".
7. Spanish flu caused nearly 1/3 of total military deaths.
8. The total cost of the war was over thirty billion dollars.
9. Surprisingly, WWI is only the sixth deadliest conflict in history.
10. Russia mobilized twelve million soldiers during WWI. More than 75% were killed, or went missing in action.

     Source(s): https://www.factretriever.com/world-war-i-facts

     World War II:

1. The country with the largest number of WWII casualties was Russia, with over twenty-one million dead.
2. It is estimated that 1.5 million children died during the Holocaust.
3. 1.2 million of those children were Jews.
4. The longest battle of WWII was the Battle of Amiens, which lasted from 1939 to 1945. 
5. The Nazis murdered approximately twelve million people, with nearly six million of those being Jews.
6. In 1935, engineer Robert Watson-Watt was working on a "death ray" that would soon turn into radar.
7. Dr. Josef Mengele used about 3,000 pairs of twins in his gruesome genetic experiments. 
8. Many historians believe that the battle of Stalingrad is the bloodiest battle in history, with between 800,000 to 1,600,000 casualties.
9. During WWII, the American defense budget rose from $1.9 billion to $59.8 billion.
10. The Air force was a part of the Army and didn't become its own branch until after the war.

     Source(s): https://www.factretriever.com/world-war-ii

     The Vietnam War:

1. The United States didn't get involved in the war until 1954.
2. President Kennedy wanted to get the U.S. out of the war but didn't know how.
3. The U.S. issued M-16 was so terrible that troops began picking up their enemy's AK-47s.
4. A majority of the men who fought in the war weren't drafted, they volunteered.
5. The war wasn't exclusively a jungle war, as many movies make it out to be.
6. Richard Nixon ended the war but invaded Cambodia first.
7. The war had a huge impact on civilians, as many wars often do.
8. The Vietnam War left legions of unexploded bombs that are still being located to this day.
9. There was a lot of guerilla warfare during the Vietnam War.
10. North Vietnam eventually won the war.

     Source(s): https://www.businessinsider.com/17-wild-facts-about-the-vietnam-war-2015-7

     https://www.thefactsite.com/vietnam-war-facts/