Posted on 02/20/2014 2:15:56 PM PST by Ravnagora
Royal cousins Wilhelm II and King George V went to war
As nations gear up to mark 100 years since the start of World War One, academic argument still rages over which country was to blame for the conflict.
Education Secretary for England Michael Gove's recent criticism of how the causes and consequences of the war are taught in schools has only stoked the debate further.
Here 10 leading historians give their opinion.
Sir Max Hastings - military historian
Germany
No one nation deserves all responsibility for the outbreak of war, but Germany seems to me to deserve most.
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Ping!
Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, France, Britain and Serbia
How did Italy, Montenegro and Andorra avoid blame too?
Self ping for later. i am just a geek for “The Great War”.
To quote George Costanza, “It was the Moops.”
The cousins never fired a shot in anger. The peasants died in droves.
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Well known fact Kaisher Wilhem was a***hole
Thank you for posting this.
I’ve always believed that World War II was a family feud writ large using the armed forces of the various nations that the various Royal houses controlled.
Today though I would say that although the Family Feud theory still holds some water it was much more than that. I think today that it was build-up of internal national tensions. Those tensions and the belief that they would explode in the faces of the various ruling aristocracies needed an outlet and when the excuse for war presented by Arch-duke Ferdinand’s assassination occurred. They grabbed it with the hope that it really wouldn’t be that bad and that the various nationalistic groups would be bottled up for another generation.
I can see that as a form of ‘kick the can down the road’. The assorted colonies around the world had served as an outlet for the more adventurous of their citizens was now seen as soon coming to an end. They were not getting back as much as they putting out to maintain them and that also put another type of tension.
All in all the European continent was doomed to go to war.
One thing for sure:
There was *NO* reason for America to have anything to do with it.
Kudos go to the Ukrainians for staging a timely crisis to commemorate the war!
I'm waiting for someone to blame Bush and Global Warming!
According to the common core curriculum, the great war was started by George W. Bush to kill black people and homosexuals.
Good toon......thats exactly how it went.....if there weren’t so many alliances it wouldn’t have exploded so big.
All I know is my grandfather proudly flew a fighter FOR Germany in WWI and led B-17 squadrons in to drop bombs ON Germany in WWII.
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