Why were the Germans called The Hun in World War I and World War II?
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The Hun were a war-like tribe from the region which is now Germany. They were one of the tribes which raided and eventually destroyed the Roman Empire.
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The Allies in WWI were almost the same Allies in WWII. Here's the Wikipedia entry on the matter:\n\nWorld War I, also known as the First World War, and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice (cessation of hostilities) on November 11, 1918.The Allied Powers (led by Britain, France, and, later, the United States) defeated the Central Powers (led by Germany, Austria and the Ottoman Empire), and led to the collapse of four empires and a radical change in the map of Europe.
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Pan German nationalism is the idea that there should be a great German state encompassing all the people who are ethnic German or "Aryan". It is most associated with Adolf Hitler, who made this one of his key policies, calling for anchluss or union with Austria and for the Sudentenland to be handed over to Germany on these grounds.
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After WWI, the Allies decided that they were going to punish Germany for causing WWI.  The fact that Germany was no more at fault than France or England was not an issue.  Germany was severely punished, and the result was the rise of Hitler, which consequently lead to WWII.\n\nAfter WWII, the US wanted to avoid another war, and they had learned the hard way that keeping the loser down was not a good idea.  Rebuilding Japan (and Germany) was the best way to ensure future security and hopefully cooperation between the two nations.
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1. The fellows on airplanes used to say goodbye to their enemies at first. Those were very small planes used only as a reconaissance. Afterwards, some bastard attached a machine gun to the plane, and they were not friends anymore.\n\n2. Due to that War, Germany invented the Panzer (Tank) and the British invented the Jeep.\n\n3. The Krupp Dinasty became the wealthiest people on the planet. They were selling weapons to any country, including the allies, and by the way, they were german.\n\n4. America became a major world superpower with that war, a peer of the biggest of Europe.\n\n5. Just after WW1 finished, Apocalypse appeared: the infamous Spanish Influenza. This epidemic killed more people and soldiers than all the people killed with the war.\n\n6. The first encounter with chemical warfare. Germans used to throw Sarin and or Chloride gas to their enemies, blinding them and sending them to the other world with the worst excruciating pains you can imagine.\n\n7. The Germans stopped using the ridiculous spikes on their helmets, but the helmet (without the spikes) was adopted by everyone.\n\n8. The american soldiers were called doughboys.\n\n9. France had their vengeance against the Germans, because previously some years before Prussia (that was the name of Germany on that time) beat the shit out of them in 1870. And the same person, Krupp, gave the arms in that war.\n\nSee ya, buddy...
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In 1935 the Iranian government requested those countries which it had diplomatic relations with, to call Persia "Iran," which is the name of the country in Persian. The suggestion for the change is said to have come from the Persian ambassador to Germany, who came under the influence of the Nazis. At the time Germany was in the grip of racial fever and cultivated good relations with nations of "Aryan" blood since the ancestors of Germans are ARYAN (IRAN).\nAnd also Pars is the term for the race of Persian people so when you are refering to Persian peoples race u should say Parsi(persian).
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Actually it isn't all military persons, but the Marines that were given that name.\n\nThe German Army coined this term of respect for U.S. Marines during World War I. In the summer of 1918 the German Army was driving toward Paris. The French Army was in full retreat. In a desperate effort to save Paris, the newly arrived U.S. Marines were thrown into the breach. In June 1918, in bitter fighting lasting for weeks, Marines repeatedly repulsed the Germans in Belleau Wood. The German drive toward Paris sputtered, fizzled, and died. Then the Marines attacked and swept the Germans back out of Belleau Wood. Paris had been saved. The tide of war had turned. Five months later Germany would be forced to accept an armistice. The battle tenacity and fury of the U.S. Marines had stunned the Germans. In their official reports they called the Marines "teufel hunden," meaning Devil Dogs, the ferocious mountain dogs of Bavarian folklore.\n\nhttp://www.usmcpress.com/heritage/usmc_terms.htm
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America "doing laundry"?!?!  That is as insulting and ignorant as it is completely wrong.  And using casualty figures clouds the issues even more.  How many Soviet officers and soldiers did Stalin and his Commissars kill?  And to that we can add the poor tactics and training of the average Soviet "peasant and worker" troops who were slaughtered as they attacked directly into German lines.  But that isn't the question here.\n\nAs for why France and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) fell so easily in 1940, we must look at these countries during the "interwar years" between WWI and WWII.  Both the UK and France suffered greatly during the “Great War” and their people wanted nothing to do with anything military.  Coupled with this was the mindsets in both countries military that tanks were a fluke invention and even if used, they were nothing more than mobile pill boxes.  Add to this the fact the British went back to pushing horse Cavalry over tanks even through WWII and you can see a trend.\n\nThe British also had a doctrine called “Limited Liability” where the Royal Navy was favored, along with the Royal Air Force (RAF) why the Army was relegated to a colonial police force.  Some of this came from the theories of prominent thinkers (Douhae, spelled wrong) who advocated independent air forces and mass bombing campaigns.  This appealed to an island nation wanting nothing to do with another land war in Europe.  Also, even in the face of German re-armament, the Spanish Civil War, and the Invasion of Poland (which the USSR helped with), neither the British, under Chamberlain, nor the French prepared for the coming war.\n\nFrance, after stating they would NEVER fight another war like WWI, immediately started preparing for another WWI in the 1920s.  Their doctrine for the coming war was “methodical battle”.  A series of defensive battles using tightly controlled units to stop the German advances while the Allies prepared their armies for the attack..a few years later.  The Germans simply over-ran the French lines before they could be set-up.\n\nFor the Germans, the interwar period saw them devote 10% of their military to conducting an After Action Review of WWI.  They reformed their Armed Forces from the top down.  They got rid of the “nobility” or privileged class restriction for the officer corps and instead set up formal education for officers similar to West Point, Annapolis and the War College in the US.  They conducted secret research into tanks with the Soviets in the 1920s with full support of the Soviet government.  When Hitler arrived, he had a professional core for his army and only lacked the production capacity for war.  This was one of the reasons he took Czechoslovakia as its tank factories were some of the best in the region. Germany incorporated the Czech tank into their army and named it the PZ-38T.\n\nWhen Germany entered France in 1940, they entered only after training extensively through the previous winter and only after they had integrated the newer PZIII and PZ IV Panzers into their training.  That said, a bulk of German Armor was still PZI Machine Gun tanks (small versions of the UK Matilda), and PZII training tanks (Armed with 20mm cannon and a machine gun).  The French and British had better tanks, and more of them.  However, the German combined arms tactics and superior mobility of its infantry, combined with some very stupid decisions by the Allies, along with very possible treason by those destined to be the Vichy French, combined to cause the fall of France only a few months later.\n\nThat’s the short rundown for a very much larger topic.  It must be noted that the only foul ups in this operation (i.e. allowing the BEF and French forces to evacuate from Dunkirk) occurred when Hitler got involved directly in military operations.  This set the tone for the rest of WWII.  When Hitler stayed out of the way, the Germans did well.  When he waded in like a
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There are many sources of this information but it depends on how you class an invasion, as a history student i would disagree with poland as the answer here and look further back for thhis answer. At the end of the first world war the Armistices signed (the treaty of versilles) gave France a portoin of germany known as the rhineland ( was this an invasion or was germany merley repossing their own land ?) after that through the "Anschluss" of 1938 hitler then annexed austria to take control of that country (german troops where welcomed) he then set about Czechosloviakia by occupying the Sudetenland, the Czeck people where given no say in this and briatian and france stood by, this incident led to the famous chamberlain momment of returning from munich after negociating someone elses country falling in to german hands !. Five months later germany occupied the remaing area of Czechosloviakia, so technically invading them
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In World War I, the six major powers were set against each other. At the time, the US was an isolationist (which means that we didn't want to get involved in European affairs) There was a lot of nationalism in the countries, and each country built up their armies. Russia, France, and Britain against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. Noone expected it to cause as many causualties as it did, but since each nation was so powerful, it did. The troops were in trenches, (trench warfare) for several years. At the time, they had machine guns, and the only way to advance was to cross the area between the trenches called "No man's land" When they crossed no man's land, they were mowed down with machine guns. So the generals, instead of looking for other methods, chose instead to send more troops, causing more casualties.
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the axis powers (hitler) want to unite all the "german speaking people" in europe as one country of germany. this is basically taking over the whole of europe because there are german speaking people everywhere. also, hitler blames the jews because when he was a soldier in WW1 and they lost, he blamed the government leaders, who were mostly jewish. \nthe allied powers saw hitler as a mass murderer (who he was) and based on some of the rules of the league of nations (something similar to the UN which was put into effect after WW1 in an effort to stop another war from occuring) decided to help the countries that were being attacked...by germany. this is how the 2 powers re-formed from ww1.
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One of the (many) causes of WW2 was the monetary reparations forced upon Germany following WW1.  The Treaty of Versailles (which states how much the Germans 'owed', among other forms of 'punishment') was greatly hated in Germany and gave momentum to both the Nazi and the Communist movements in Germany.  Not wanting a repeat of that, after WW2, the allied forces decided to go a completely different way with their defeated enemies - military occupation.  Rather than forcing Germany and Japan to make payments, the allied forces divided up the areas controlled by Germany and Japan.
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Im not sure if the term originated in WWII or  from the Vietnam war. \nBut I know it originated cause solders married local women and brought them to the US after the war.
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Just read this:  http://www.firstworldwar.com/origins/causes.htm\n\nThe war started out as a dispute between Austria-Hungary and Serbia over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but escalated as other countries entered the melee.\n\nHistory can fault Germany because they lost.
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Are you asking in general what they did?  One thing is the Holocaust in which they killed over 6 million Jewish people, as well as political prisoners, gypsies, invalids, etc.  However, that really began after 1939.  Up until then, Hitler focused on labelling these people as scapegoats for why Germany fell so hard economically after WWI.  Besides the Holocaust, the Nazis improved the German economy and military, allowing them to be capable of invading and capturing so many countries during WWII.
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German Hitler=megalomaniac, tried to create a dynasty by conquering Europe.  Japanese=pissed at the US over trade practices, attacks the US @ Pearl Harbor.  The US fights (with Allies) in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.  Wins.
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not true. germany fought for supremacy, the allies fought for survival.