The War Of The World War II - 1302 Words

Albert Einstein, a famous physicist, once said on the topic of war, â€Å"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.† According to Einstein and many people even today, war is like a self-destruct button, and if pressed, the world would be destroyed. It would be in ruins and the human race would have to start all over again. Even though we, as humans, know this, people have fought many wars in the past, and wars still happen around the world today. Humans overestimate the effects of this button and there has been times in history, where we almost pressed it. An example of an important and deadly war that took place was the Thirty Years’ War. It was one of the bloodiest wars†¦show more content†¦This angered many Protestants around the nation. Protestants from Austria and Bohemia fought Ferdinand, which just ended in disaster for the Protestants. According to Britannica, â€Å"Although the struggles that created it erupted some years earlier, the war is conventionally held to have begun in 1618, when the future Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II, in his role as king of Bohemia, attempted to impose Roman Catholic absolutism on his domains, and the Protestant nobles of both Bohemia and Austria rose up in rebellion. Ferdinand won after a five-year struggle,† (Britannica). Now, at this point, the fight got serious. A Swedish king, Gustav II Adolf, won much of Germany and influenced all the princes to follow non-Roman Catholic beliefs. Protestants took help from the Swedish king, The United Netherlands which was trying to free itself from Spain, a Protestant rival, and France, whose king disliked Ferdinand, and some more countries. Ferdinand didn’t fight alone either. He got help and aid from Spain, an ally and many other countries that were strictly on Catholic beliefs. The intense war had now officially started. For the first few years, both sides seemed equal. Although this was a fight of Protestants allowance in The Holy Roman Empire, the one that took on the biggest lost was actually Germany. It is stated in Britannica that, â€Å"The principal battlefield for all these intermittent conflicts was the