World War I
World War I involved more countries and caused greater destruction than any other
war, except World War II. An assassin's bullet set off the war, and a system of military
agreements plunged the main European powers into the fight. Each side expected a quick
victory; but the war lasted four years and took the lives of nearly ten million military
troops.
Military drafts raised larger armies than ever before, and extreme patriotism gave men
a cause they were willing to die for. Progaganda whipped up support for the war by
making the enemy seem villainous.
On June 28, 1914, an assassin gunned down Archduke Francis Ferdinard of
Austria-Hungary in Sarejevo, the capital of Austria-Hungary's province of Bornia. The
killer, Gavrilo Princip, had ties to a terrorist organization in Serbia. Austria-Hungary
believed that Serbia?s government was behind the assassination. It seized the
opportunity to declare war on Serbia and settle an old feud.
Austria-Hungary decided to use this assassination as an excuse to settle its fight with
Serbia. Germany backed Austria, and on July 23 Austria presented a warlike ultimatum
to Serbia. It allowed forty-eight hours for a reply. On July 28, Austria refused Serbia?s
reply and declared war on Serbia.
All nations in Europe had been expecting war and rival groups had been making
treaties and alliances for many years. Europe was divided into two camps. Germany,
Austria-Hungary, and Italy were members of the Triple Alliance, or Central Powers. ...
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...y historians have stated,
?The actuality of harsh compromises in the treaties along with continued violence in some
nations, distrust among the peoples, and a sharp recession produced a widespread sense of
disillustionment.? Peace agreements after the war did change the map of the world.
New governments appeared in Austria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Finland, Germany,
Hungary, Latvia, Lithunia, Poland, Russia, Yugoslavia, and several countries of western
Asia. However this war did not solve the world?s problems. The peace settlements that
followed created conditions that plunged the world into another war less than twenty
years later. (Tuchman)
Works Cited
Bender,David L. World War I. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1998.
Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August: Macmillan, 1962.
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