World War II's course was dramatically affected by inventions, technologies, and strategic innovations and theories of all kinds. As one example, the mass-formations of armored vehicles coupled with air-support and motorized infantry led to 'lightning warfare' for both sides of the conflict, thus rendering World War II quite different from World War I. As another example, the technological innovation of the atomic bomb proved to be the decisive answer to Japan's will to resist while also signaling the beginning of an entire new age in the history of humankind.
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Many weapons were developed. One was the tank and the airplane . Both of these would change the way the war was fought.
Many European leaders thought that these modern advances in military technology would result in a short war.
a war conduct is how the battle was fought, in a way rules of the war.
World War I was fought the same way as earlier wars, only the technology had advanced making that form of combat obsolete. The rapid fire machine gun, explosive shells with poison gas, and the tank all made their appearance in World War I. The age of the cavalry charge was over.
In a way, yes. German immigrants and decendants of German immigrants in other countries fought against the Nazis in World War II.