[Snowybear]

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.

-SB

-SB

[Snowybear]

Sorry, that should have read the British, France and Russia.

*forehead slap*

-SB

[little jeremiah]

Thank you for more info. Could it be described as a hot mess?

[combat_boots]

Thanks.