This three-page undergraduate essay compares the maps of Europe after the First and Second World Wars. The author examines the major changes that occurred after World War One, explains why they were made, and then discusses how these changes contributed to the outbreak of World War Two twenty years later. The paper then analyzes why the map of Europe was changed again because of World War Two, examines the major military and political events that led to those changes, and compares the two postwar maps.