[netmilsmom]

I searched for this and it did not seem to be here. I loved it!

[netmilsmom]

Oooops, Html can be your friend. Anyone know what happened to the guide? Can anyone help? I'm just a mom who needs to do some studying.

[camle]

uh Germany did not start World War I, the Serbian Black Hand did when their member Princip assisinated the Archduke of Austria. Everybody else got dragged into the fracas by virtue of a myriad of secret mutual defence treaties.

[camle]

neither did Germany "force" the US into World War II. We remained officially neutral, whilst giving lend-lease to the brits until AFTER PEarl HArbor. FDR Felt that while we would go to war to respond to the PH attack, he would include Germany, which declared war on the US at around the same time. It was a political decision to save britain that we focussed on Germany before Japan in that war.

you history, while amusing is hardly accurate.

[leadpenny]

Pretty good stuff. In the long run I hope the rift between the US and Germany is fixed.

FTR, I believe the Germans stood by when we went into Bosnia. They went into Kosovo with considerable force.

[BlessedBeGod]

Here ya go:

1871 - Bismark founds modern Germany.
1890 - Bismark sacked, warmonger Wilhelm II takes direct control.
1914 - Germany starts World War I
1914-1918 - Germany kills millions upon millions of people.
1917 - Germany force peace loving Americans to enter war.
1918 - Germany loses World War I.
1920's - Germans try democracy.
1933 - Germans reject democracy, allow Hitler to take power.
1939 - Germany starts World War II.
1939-1945 - Germany kills millions upon millions of people.
1941 - Germany force peace loving Americans to enter war.
1945 - Germany loses World War II.
1946 - Germans whine about lack of food, America gives billions in food aid to feed them.
1947 - Germans whine about crappy economy, America gives billions in Marshall Plan aid to rebuild German economy.
1948-1949 - America puts ass on line and risk WW3 to save a few Berliners from Soviet hordes.
1949 - Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) established.
1950's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes.
1950's - German 'economic miracle' occurs while America keeps watch on Soviet hordes.
1955 - NATO formed to protect West Germany from Soviet hordes.
1960's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes.
1960's - German students protest war in Vietnam and American civil rights.
1963 - American President John Kennedy makes "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.
1970's - America spends billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes.
1970's - Germans form the marxist terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF).
1970's - Leftist German guerrillas burn, loot, and plunder much of West Germany.
1980's - America spends tens of billions to defend West Germany from Soviet hordes.
1980's - German leftists bitch about Pershing II missles.
1987 - American President Ronald Reagan makes "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" speech.
1989 - Gorbachev tears down Berlin Wall.
1990 - German Reunification.
1990's - America spends tens of billions to defend Germany from Islamic hordes.
1990's - Germany stands by as ethnic cleasing occurs in Balkans.
1993 - Germany joins European Union.
1995 - Americans send troops to Bosnia as Germans watch from the sidelines.
1997 - Germans finally send troops to Bosnia.

[Rodney King]

I think it's great except for the already stated opinion that Germany did not start World War 1. Camle blames it on the Serbs. I blame it on the Austo-Hungarian empire who oppressed the Serbs, and for the moron prince to parade around occupied territory without much protection.

Anyway, the Austro-Hungarians imposed unbearable demands upon Serbia as a result. The Serbs agreed to almost all of them. Austro-Hungarians attack Serbia. Serbia has treaty with Russia, so Russia mobilizes against the Austro-Hungarians. Germany has treaty with Austro-Hungarians, so Germany mobilizes against Russia. Russia mobilizes against Germany. France has pact with Russia, so France mobilizes against Germany and the AH's. England has pact with France, and so on. The Germans are quicker to mobilize and knowing their perilous position between two great powers (France and Russia) try to take out France before Russia is fully mobilized.