Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo, but lots more that is ... sort of incomprehensible to me at the moment. I’ll check out later.
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Secret treaties among the various European powers had them bound to declare war on X if attacked. The assassination of Franz Ferdin was the match that set off the explosive events that followed.
THanks.
It goes back to the war of 1870 when Germany trounced France, gained territory from them and began to be an actual country instead of a bunch of feudal kingdoms.
Germany was considered an upstart by France and England. Germany wanted a piece of the colonial pie like the other major countries. The result of the war of 1870 shocked the world. Prussia. You don’t mess with Prussia.
The Germans made many mistakes in the early weeks of the war, which resulted in the trench warfare that marked the rest of the war. Also, the alliance between the British, France and England never seemed possible after the Napoleonic wars. How it happened I don’t remember, I have a book from the early 1900s that explains it all beginning after the Napoleonic wars.
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