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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHistory lesson simplified: If Word War I was a bar fight - here is how it went down
The Magistrate
(95,248 posts)Not bad at all.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)I don't know who wrote this, but it's a keeper!
malthaussen
(17,205 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Not counting how many suffered from "battle fatigue" or how many people were displaced, impoverished (further), etc.
We can barely imagine those numbers today.
Not to mention, the state in which the peace treaty left Germany arguably paved the way for a lunatic to tell the Germans they were exceptional.
But, the important thing is, American bankers lost nothing on the loans they had made to European nations. So, huzzah.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)aggressive militaristic dictatorships crammed together. They could have backed down from that war if they really wanted to.
If not Archduke Ferdinand, there would have been another pretext and exactly the same players would have lined up.
And it peddles the myth that poor innocent Germany was the victim of the villainous Allies. Germany was more than hot to trot.