what caused the world powers to go to war?
The spark was ignited when on June 28 when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb
shot dead France Ferdinand.
The empires rulers then tried finding any exploits to invade the area the weapons came from,but the Russians would not allow being an ally.
On the July 6 an attack was planned and demanded that Russia and its allies would not intervene.(Russia and France vs Germany and Austria )
Once the war and death occurred it was clear that if Germans won it would be bad for Europe.
On 1914 Germany was known to be an advanced society from automobiles,medicine
In August 1914 prepared to invade France and in forty days betray Russia.
The spark was ignited when on June 28 when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb
shot dead France Ferdinand.
The empires rulers then tried finding any exploits to invade the area the weapons came from,but the Russians would not allow being an ally.
On the July 6 an attack was planned and demanded that Russia and its allies would not intervene.(Russia and France vs Germany and Austria )
Once the war and death occurred it was clear that if Germans won it would be bad for Europe.
On 1914 Germany was known to be an advanced society from automobiles,medicine
In August 1914 prepared to invade France and in forty days betray Russia.
"A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances". -George S.Patterson"
"The Great War," used interchangeably with "the First World War" (so named in 1918 by a sardonic English journalist, who knew it would not be the last such conflict), engendered in Britain a sense of loss that endures to this day; it remains the great divide in Britons' sense of their history. Along with the battles of Mons, Loos, the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele, and the writings of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden, the statistics are probably known to every sixth-former in the United Kingdom: the 60 percent casualty rate that tore apart the British Expeditionary Force (probably the best army Britain ever fielded) in the first three months of the war, the 60,000 casualties on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the 723,000 British dead by the end of the war (twice as many as in the Second World War).
"The Great War," used interchangeably with "the First World War" (so named in 1918 by a sardonic English journalist, who knew it would not be the last such conflict), engendered in Britain a sense of loss that endures to this day; it remains the great divide in Britons' sense of their history. Along with the battles of Mons, Loos, the Somme, Ypres, and Passchendaele, and the writings of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Edmund Blunden, the statistics are probably known to every sixth-former in the United Kingdom: the 60 percent casualty rate that tore apart the British Expeditionary Force (probably the best army Britain ever fielded) in the first three months of the war, the 60,000 casualties on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the 723,000 British dead by the end of the war (twice as many as in the Second World War).