The wars held importance in the sense that they were so devastating that it's unlikely that anyone would ever want to be involved in such a large-scale conflict again. They also held importance in the sense that they helped countries do a lot of developing- quite a bit of technology developed during that time is still used today. Weaponry, planes... heck, even nuclear weaponry came about because of the second world war. Not that it wouldn't have if it weren't for the war, but during times of crisis people become desperate and tend to work faster than they normally do on such things so that it can help them overcome said crisis.
The wars were incredible in the sense that they brought about development that would not have ordinarily been brought around. Yes, nuclear fusion/fission did exist before World War 2... but that was in the sun and not in a way that we could harness. If it hadn't been for the need to build nuclear weaponry then we would have never even considered that it could be harnessed, and we would probably still be using some ridiculous form of power like hamsters on treadmills. A lot of the weaponry that we use today appeared in the second world war as well - I'm probably wrong on this, but if I remember right, I heard that AK-47s were invented during WW2, and a lot of aerial technology came to be in the second world war. Plus, a lot of planes that could carry more than just one person (a person plus a bomb/weapon) started to be invented in the first world war - before that, soaring with the birds was something that could only be done for a few moments (just ask the Wright brothers). They also created a lot of alliances and a system of checks and balances on other countries that had the possibility to go renegade on us all. (Not that they would. We have nukes.)
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