What cause world war 1 and world war 2?

Question: What cause world war 1 and world war 2?
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Asked by ALOrona to John, Laura, Luke, Rob, Ruth on 10 Jun 2016.
- Robert Williams answered on 10 Jun 2016:
  
  There is no one single answer, but the broad answer is that one side decided that the other had a different way of viewing humanity.
- Laura Finney answered on 10 Jun 2016:
  
  I’m not sure about world war 1.
  
  For world war 2, Germany was in a lot of money trouble and everyone was pretty low on money and felt they had no hope. Hitler gave them hope and was a good speaker and so he easily convinced people he was right.
  That combined with being power hungry and having different ideas probably led to a lot of it.
- Ruth Patchett answered on 11 Jun 2016:
  
  I believe books and essays have been written about these questions and my knowledge of history is not good enough to give you a good answer except to agree with Robert. You tend to get groups with different ideas of the best way to do things and a build up of tension. War is normally caused by a “spark” some sort of incident where one country does something that another objects to so strongly they feel obliged to step in. World politics is complicated and there are a lots of fights about who owns what especially in terms of land.
- John Fossey answered on 11 Jun 2016:
  
  I can’t say I know the answer in detail – but a lack of shared understanding and division can cause conflict.
  
  If you are old enough to have a vote consider this on 23 June.
- Luke Williams answered on 14 Jun 2016:
  
  As others have said, there are many causes and tensions – would not surprise me if historians have made a career out of it.
  
  The spark for WW1 was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, which caused Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia, as the assassin was ethnically Serbian and the murder was part of a plot to instil terror and ultimately remove part of the country to create Yugoslavia.
  
  Due to previously agreed treaties, once Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, so did Germany. Serbia then called in Russia on its side, which drew in France. Germany then proceeded to go through Belgium to get to France, which drew in Great Britain. Numerous other countries would also get dragged in, but the snowball started there.
  
  The origins of WW1 were over the previous 40 years or so, with a succession of events and exchanges which increased tensions to the point whereby the above spark was enough to set things off. A number of misunderstandings, exaggerations and other things also made the events much worse.
  
  WW2, as Laura stated above, was mostly caused by the end of WW1 really not being sorted out properly, which caused Germany great trouble, which was then exploited, and war then exploded again.
  
  As Ruth has said, there is a heck of a lot written about it – it is also very topical as the majority of the issues regarding the Middle East can be traced back in some form to the end of WW1, and in particular the Sykes-Picot line which was a division of the Middle East territories between zones of French and British control.

Question: What cause world war 1 and world war 2?

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