Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Who is to BLAME for World War One - 100 Years On

BBC News: Has ten different viewpoints on who is to blame for World War One.

Lets Get Real: 

This blog likes to be different, its not who is to blame, its WHAT, and that is a simpler answer, it was technology, ALL the powers had to move troops, thus the WHAT was to blame for the War was train timetables, once WAR looked like the result the Military had to move troops to face the threat from their viewpoint, once the Russians mobilised their troops the Germans needed a quick victory in the West, thus the invasion of Belgium, one of the contributors states the following and is close to this blog's view of World War One and the role of Imperial Germany,Finally, they violated international treaties by invading Luxemburg and Belgium knowing that the latter violation was virtually certain to bring in Britain... ".  Although the invasion of Belgium SOLD the War to the public, the British Empire could not allow France to FALL, this would have made Imperial Germany the central power in Europe and a threat to the British Empire in the long term.   Thus the WHAT that pushed the powers to WAR was the railways, the WHO was Germany, a Kaiser so saw the threat to late, and could not back down or stop the developments that lead to World War One. 

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