Essay On The Great War

Once. Many hundred years ago, the Earth was a peaceful place.... It sounds like it could not be a true statement, I know. Although, what I tell you, is in fact a true statement. At one point in time, there was no major wars anywhere, throughout planet Earth. Many people on the planet enjoyed the new found peace and prosperity, the Leaders of the world, found better use for their wealth, that equated to trillions of dollars. A large amount of wealth that would have normally been, used for War,Guns and War Machines. The Countries of the world, now could use their wealth to feed the under privileged people, who normally would have died of starvation and diseases. This is one of the many numerous actions that leaders of the world took, to preserve …show more content…
“If you had a penny for every person who died in the war, you would have exactly 13,245,708,678 pennies." If you add it all up, you would be a multimillionaire deduced. I began to read the writing in the book, that was discussing the history of the Great War. “For thousands of years, humanity has lived on the brink on annililation, with all the things that have happened. Every so many years, something will happen, that will cause untold amounts of bloodshed and suffering. The Black Plague, Small Pox, World War One, World War Two. These four events alone have accounted for more than a quarter of a billion deaths. What makes matters even worse, is the death toll was in the upper millions for each of these terrible events. With each of these events, the countries that were involved were devastated. in some cases it took them years to rebuilt.... Because the amount of bloodshed and destruction, was so high. In the aftermath of the Great War however, there was no rebuilding, because the bloodshed and destruction, was far too massive and widespread. I will tell you the sad truth of the Great War.... It was no accident, that the war started, it was started by action of one