Prompt: Compare the social, political, and economical continuities and changes

between WW1 and WW2.

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There is no confusion of counsel among the adversaries of the Central Powers, no uncertainty of
principle, no vagueness of detail. The only secrecy of counsel, the only lack of fearless frankness, the
only failure to make definite statement of the objects of the war, lies with Germany and her allies. The
issues of life and death hang upon these definitions. No statesman who has the least conception of his
responsibility ought for a moment to permit himself to continue this tragical and appalling outpouring of
blood and treasure unless he is sure beyond a peradventure that the objects of the vital sacrifice are part
and parcel of the very life of society and that the people for whom he speaks think them right and
imperative as he does.
-Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Point Speech

Source 4: No wonder when this great war started that there were some elements of suspicion still lurking in the
minds of the people of the United States of America. There were those who thought perhaps that Kings were at their
old tricks - and although they saw the gallant Republic of France fighting, they some of them perhaps regarded it as
the poor victim of a conspiracy of monarchical swashbucklers.
The fact that the United States of America has made up its mind finally makes it abundantly clear to the world that this
is no struggle of that character, but a great fight for human liberty.
They naturally did not know at first what we had endured in Europe for years from this military caste in Prussia. It

never has reached the United States of America. Prussia was not a democracy. The Kaiser promises that it will be a
democracy after the war. I think he is right. But Prussia not merely was not a democracy. Prussia was not a State Prussia was an army. It had great industries that had been highly developed; a great educational system; it had its
universities, it had developed its science.

David Lloyd George Speech on

America's Entry into the War

Source 5: We do not envisage an end to this war save victory. We are determined to not only win the
war but to win the peace. Plans must be prepared in advance. Action must be taken now if the end of the
war is not to find us unprepared. But the problems of the peace cannot be solved by one nation in
isolation. The plan of a post-war Britain must be fitted into the plans of a post-war world, for this fight is
not just a fight between nations. It is a fight for the future of civilisation. Its result will affect the lives of all
men and women not only those now engaged in the struggle. It is certain that until the crushing burden
of armaments is lifted from the backs of the people, they cannot enjoy the maximum social well-being
which is possible. We cannot build the city of our desire under the constant menace of aggression.
Freedom from fear and freedom from want must be sought together.
The joint expression of aims common to the United States and the British Commonwealth of Nations
known as the Atlantic Charter includes not only purposes covering war but outlines of more distinct
objectives.
It binds us to endeavour with due respect to existing obligations to further enjoyment by all States, great
and small, victors and vanquished, of access on equal terms to trade and raw materials which are needed
for their economic prosperity. In addition it records our desire to bring about the fullest collaboration
between all nations in economic field with the object of securing with all labour standards, economic
advancement and social security. But it is not enough to applaud these objectives. They must be attained.
And if mistakes are to be avoided, there must be the closest international collaboration, in which we in the
United Kingdom will gladly play our part.
We are determined that economic questions and questions of the universal improvement of standards of
living and nutrition shall not be neglected as they were after the last war owing to the preoccupation with
political problems. The fact is that wars do not enrich but impoverish the world and bold statesmanship
will be needed if we are to repair the ravages of war and to insure to all the highest possible measure of
labour standards, economic advancement and social security to which the Atlantic Charter looks forward.
- Clement Attlee The Atlantic Charter 10/29/1940
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How long it will be, how long it will last depends upon the exertions which we make on this island. An
effort, the like of which has never been seen in our records, is now being made. Work is proceeding
night and day. Sundays and week days. Capital and labour have cast aside their interests, rights and
customs and put everything into the common stock. Already the flow of munitions has leaped
forward. There is no reason why we should not in a few months overtake the sudden and serious
loss that has come upon us without retarding the development of our general program.
Nevertheless, our thankfulness at the escape of our army with so many men, and the thankfulness
of their loved ones, who passed through an agonising week, must not blind us to the fact that what
happened in France and Belgium is a colossal military disaster. - Winston Churchill We Shall
Never Surrender 04/06/1940

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