Q5X
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| 09 Mar 2013 01:43 AM |
I bet half of you dont know how WWI started. If you'd like to know, I'll tell you.
Once upon a time, in Europe, there was a dim-witted country called Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia, Russia's secret ally. Russia fought Austria-Hungary. Germany did not like this at all. They declared war on Russia, and soon the war began. France and Great Britan were included in the battle also. America was trading with France, when Henry Ford sent a peace ship to Germany. Germany sunk this ship. The US declared war after Germany sunk several ships. During the war, new inventions sprouted everywhere. There were U-Boats (Now known as submarines) and Tanks.
okay, so now you guys know. stop telling ppl that germany killed america to start wwi also, this politcal talk is stupid.
Soon, the war finished with the Allied Powers winning |
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Q5X
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| 09 Mar 2013 01:44 AM |
| 10 minutes trying to remember everything we learned in history for the past 3 years. |
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Relictus
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| 09 Mar 2013 01:45 AM |
Wasn't there something about an assassination in Sarajevo?
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Q5X
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| 09 Mar 2013 01:46 AM |
Yes, but that will get the kids coonfused. I didn't want to tell them all the details. They might use this to cheat on thei test. |
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Pryrus
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| 09 Mar 2013 01:47 AM |
| Austria didn't attack Serbia.. Serbia gorillas killed one on the Dukes/Prince. Austria gave them an ultimatum which Serbia denied when Austria wanted to do their own investigation into the killing. |
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| 09 Mar 2013 01:52 AM |
You are missing a lot of information, here.
Once upon a time, in Europe, there was a dim-witted country called Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia, Russia's secret ally.
-Serbia was a friend of Russia that had basically been given independence by Russia which allowed it to leave Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary wasn't as much dim-witted, as simply an overextended and mismanaged empire. A Serbian national assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and the Austrians moved to invade.
Russia fought Austria-Hungary. Germany did not like this at all.
-Your point on Russia is mainly correct, so I will not contest it. Germany mainly attacked due to Germany's terrible foreign policy following the elimination of Bismarck as Germany's main foreign minister. Germany basically became the unofficial protector of Austria, instead of all relations being created for the ultimate benefit of Germany.
They declared war on Russia, and soon the war began. France and Great Britan were included in the battle also.
Decent.
America was trading with France, when Henry Ford sent a peace ship to Germany. Germany sunk this ship. The US declared war after Germany sunk several ships.
The Americans really didn't care for silly ships (unless there were Americans aboard, but it was really the procedure of unrestricted submarine warfare), it was mainly the Zimmerman telegraph that enraged the American people. Germany basically tried to get Mexico to invade the United States, while transferring this message on telegraph lines that belonged to an American company. America was furious, and invaded.
Also, the Central Powers would have most likely won had it not been for America entering the war. The Germans had already defeated Russia (which was now in revolution), and was moving all of its forces to fight in the West.
Also, WWII started when WWI ended, effectively. |
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MexiMan
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| 09 Mar 2013 01:53 AM |
| And it all could of been avoided if Russia and Germany didn't rage at each other. |
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| 09 Mar 2013 01:55 AM |
Mexi, for all intensive purposes, Kaiser Wilhelm wanted a war with someone.
It was the diametric opposite of what Bismarck stood for, which was forging peaceful relationships across Europe where Germany was readily progressing due to the favorable balance of trade to Germany in these relationships. |
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| 09 Mar 2013 02:09 AM |
The war started when a Serbian nationalist assassinated the Archduke of Austria-Hungary.
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| 09 Mar 2013 02:13 AM |
Was it World war 1 started by germany attacking somewhere thene england got involved
and then broght allies
or is that 2? |
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| 09 Mar 2013 02:51 AM |
| Added to 1920 later when Lenin of the Soviet forces was to liberate the Germany believed there were supporters of Communism, but first had to invade and capture Poland to move inward to the West. Poland defended against the Soviet forces and thus peace was to later on in WWII. Both Germany and the USSR invaded Poland in a lliance. |
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