Scary Nightmares: The Past Wars

War is a way people strive and struggle for glory and victory, and sometimes even for fame. Back in the primitive society, war is a kind of mental and physical conquers to eliminate the weakest tribes while rising up the power of the strongest tribes. This is the way how people at that moment survived for competition. Objectively, some people may think that war has promoted human evolution, nevertheless, this statement leaves many pro and con of the war.

In the society with obvious class stratification, the nature and concept of the war has changed. The war is regarded as a form to compete for territory, to expand sovereignty, and to suppress the people. On the battlefield, a large number of young workers were killed and seriously injured. At the same time, millions of families have lost their beloved children, spouses or any closely related bonds as the war has thrown human’s life into endless and terrible disaster.

When Western Europe entered the phase of capitalist society, they have used the power of advance science and technology to promote war. The greediness of the capitalists had led their attempts to uphold the malignant capitalism ideology within the society. The capitalists utilized the tanks and bombs to colonize Asia in order to seize for cheap raw materials and commodities. With their powerful weapons, they conquered the lands of Africa and America by killing and slavering red Indians, indigenous and black people.

In the early of 20th century, capitalists utilized their power of colonialism to aggressively rob more lands in order to meet their desires to expand the border of their territories by adopting the ideology of imperialism. The contradiction among the colonialists became intensified as they competed to conquer more lands. In 1914, Germany, Austria, Italy were allied with Britain, France and Russia to initiate the First World War. In the same year on August 23, Japan declared the war on Germany. In January 1917, the United States participated in the war. In 1918, 33 countries from the world’s three large continents initiated the unprecedented human World War II.

The World War II lasted for 4 years and 3 months, and involved more than three quarter of the world’s population or 15 million people at that time. More than 8,000 million of people were sent to the battlefield, and more than 30 million people have become victims in this war. Approximately 10 million of them died of hunger and bombs attack. Countries that involved in this war suffered total economic losses of about 270 billion US dollars.