it was a lot of shit. Franz Ferdinand assass. wad the spark

so they got dragged into this

And they roped me into this!

but rhinfs had bee building up for decades

Basically its THIS chain 😉

yeah that story about the serbian guy is fuckign great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7y7I3sGYAw

where he said fuck it to assasinating franz

goes for a sammich at a shoppe

Germany did cause world war 1.

Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia

A handful of bellicose political and military decision-makers in Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia caused WW1.

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Relatively common before 1914, assassinations of royal figures did not normally result in war. But Austria-Hungary's military hawks - principal culprits for the conflict - saw the Sarajevo assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a Bosnian Serb as an excuse to conquer and destroy Serbia, an unstable neighbour which sought to expand beyond its borders into Austro-Hungarian territories. Serbia, exhausted by the two Balkan wars of 1912-13 in which it had played a major role, did not want war in 1914.

then franz's car has trouble so hes forced to divert from his route to fix the car, and parks right outside the shoppe

thats Austria-Hungaria right there

not Germany

guy says fuck it and shoots him

Germany was an ally of them

AT that time, world war didn't happen.

It was just two nations fighting each other.

It was later that Germany inflamed tensions even more, causing world war to break out.

then gernamny was like oh fuck we be rapin dem

way i learned it (real oversimp. here) they gave AH carte blanche to dk w/e with serbia

lets keep going!!!

Encouraging Hungary march to conquest.

then queue them going into france

This frightened Germany into pre-emptively declaring war on Russia and on Russia's ally France and launching a brutal invasion, partly via Belgium, thereby bringing in Britain, a defender of Belgian neutrality and supporter of France.

that freaks out Rus who declares war on AH, things spiral from there

Germany was allied with them, so the Austrian-hungarian empire demanded they help,

Which caused England and France to help Russia, who was allied with Serbia

Germany declared war on Russia and this sparked the world war.

WW1 did not break out by accident or because diplomacy failed. It broke out as the result of a conspiracy between the governments of imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary to bring about war, albeit in the hope that Britain would stay out.

bx lf all the alliances. again. oversimplifying here. fyping on a phone sucks

XD i feel ya

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26048324

true. germ did thjnk "we NEED to strike Rus or well lose that chance for good"

Germany miscalculated their ambitions and it brought other nations.

Their defeated was catalyst for second world war.

Hitler convinced them that they been wronged and stocked nationalism.

And they started their conquest with the aid of Russia.

Later Japan joined them.

germany started WW2 yes

Germany help start both wars.

helped with WW1 sure, but the Austrians started it