"Above all, and in dramatic and menacing counterpoint to the century's works of hope and promise, it had created armies, the largest and potentially most destructive instruments of war the world had ever seen" (Keegan 12).
The enormous wealth, energy and population increase created by Europe's industrial revolution in the 19th century transformed the world. It created industries that linked the productive regions of the world with a network of communications. It generated the money to increase the population of historic cities. It had built the infrastructure of schools, universities, libraries, laboratories, churches, and missions of an optimistic civilization. Thus the industrial revolution also gave birth to a military based society.
Ryan Matsuo 1B
Keegan, Cause of WWII, Chp.1
