Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 7:45 am
Gavrilo Princip
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
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It was started by a sandwich https://medium.com/weird-history/a-sandwich-sparked-a-war-the-first-world-war-d0f3d1ac7a4cSword Island wrote:A REALLY oversimplified primer
World War I, also known as the Great War, occurred between 1914 and 1918. The 'reasons' for the war are relatively trivial for an event of its size. Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian national assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, prompting Austria to declare war on Serbia. Russia, who were allied with the Serbs and French( this will come to importance later), backed Serbia. Germany backs Austria and Russia mobilizes against Austria. Germany responds by mobilizing against Russia and then France mobilizes against the Germans. And so just like that, a small regional conflict balloons out to engulf all of Europe.
Here's why everyone started to mobilize one after one: The Franco-Prussian and Crimean wars were still fresh in everyone's minds. Miltary thinking at the time was if you could get to the field before everyone else you were basically guaranteed to win, so that's why everyone started to mobilize. That and the secret alliances that forced the hands of a lot of the states involved in World War I.
So who is responsible for WW1 in your opinion
Haja-Mishu wrote:yo mama is to blame for ww1
Giovenith wrote:Archduke Ferdinand's driver.
Giovenith wrote:Archduke Ferdinand's driver.
Rusozak wrote:The sandwich Gavrilo was eating. Deadliest sandwich in history.
Major-Tom wrote:This little shit.