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Fair point. Austria-Hungary started the war and America allowed France to blame Germany for the whole thing, which basically triggered WWII. :(

The treaty of Versailles ruined everything

Exactly! Germany had to pay for everything... :(

WW1 was caused by a series of interlocking peacetime treaties - it was a powder keg waiting to happen, and as it turned out the incident that caused the catastrophe was relatively small.

HOWEVER, the German government under the Kaiser played a VERY significant role in creating that situation of interlocking treaties - as, indeed, France and Britain also played; but the German government was very aggressive in trying to build colonial clout oversees and to form alliances in Europe that could overwhelm the rest of Europe. Even ministers like Bismark who just wanted the unification of Germany and little more than that were taken out of power for not working toward this end.

They were so desperate to be a heavy player in Europe that they neglected the very real human value of what they were doing.

There were no good guys in World War 1 - at least as far as Europe is concerned.

I agree with that. WWI should be much more open for discussion- ignorant people still think it was started by Nazis

It's incredibly annoying, the Nazi Party didn't even exist yet. WWI wasn't about racial inferiority and religious persecution.

Arguably, colonialism always had that going on in the background, whether the Europeans knew it or not - certainly when you get to the African colonies, white supremacy was very much top of the agenda. Certainly anti-semitism was *very* institutional in Europe - particularly in Austria and Russia.

But you're right - the Nazis hadn't invented themselves yet.

False. It was after Isaac Newton, the quarterback of the Chicago Cubs, got a home tun and beat north koreas leader, Vladimir Putin, in solitary

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