100 Years since the End of the First World War

[AtariLegend]

Tomorrow a war ended in which 70 million people got sent to war. 9 million of which died along with millions of civilians.

It was "the war to end all wars" until around 20 later when politicians got even more people killed in an even worse war. 

Edited November 10, 2018 by AtariLegend

[soon]

I remember by working for peace.

[Sosso]

Franco-Prussian War effect on World War 1

http://nyposts.blogspot.com/2009/05/franco-prussian-war-effect-on-world-war.html?m=1

[DieselDaisy]

It was a remarkable bit of German diplomacy to make allies out of the British and French haha (whilst welding themselves to an Austro-Slav quarrel which could have only resulted in a Russo ''eastern front''). It took an extra ordinary genius to make the French and British chums but the Prussians found a way!

[arnold layne]

Only 100 years? Seems like forever ago!

[DieselDaisy]

Kilts are like leather pants: there are some guys who can pull off a kilt, and some chaps who can't. The leader of the SNP in the Commons is in the latter category. 

[Lio]

[EvanG]

Among the many casualties was also this boy, who became ''famous'' because of the Titanic picture. He died in 1918 at age 22, six years after this picture was taken.

Edited November 11, 2018 by EvanG

[DieselDaisy]

This Peter Jackson thing seems worth a watch,

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1044272/WW1-Peter-Jackson-BBC-film-they-shall-not-grow-old-Remembrance-Day

This is quite remarkable,

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1042879/world-war-one-remembrance-day-recording-guns-silent-armistice-1918?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain

Edited November 13, 2018 by DieselDaisy

[Georgy Zhukov]

Been reading up on the war for the last two years. The Great War on YouTube is a great reference.

 

What I gather that had the war gone beyong November of 1918 and into 1919 than America would end up dominating the peace talks. The French and British governments didn't bother reading Wilson's Fourteen Points and an election that year cost the Democrats to lose majority and they would eventually torpedo Wilson's bid to bring America to the Leage of Nations. So thanks partially to the Republican Party, World War II happened. 

[DieselDaisy]

41 minutes ago, Georgy Zhukov said:

Been reading up on the war for the last two years. The Great War on YouTube is a great reference.

 

What I gather that had the war gone beyong November of 1918 and into 1919 than America would end up dominating the peace talks. The French and British governments didn't bother reading Wilson's Fourteen Points and an election that year cost the Democrats to lose majority and they would eventually torpedo Wilson's bid to bring America to the Leage of Nations. So thanks partially to the Republican Party, World War II happened. 

They all wanted different things during the Paris peace talks, the allies.

The French wanted to cripple Germany, her industrial-manufacturing capacity (France, awarded control over the Saarland) and her army, besides obviously taking back Alsace-Lorraine and requisitioning a multitude of arms, ammunition and raw materials - Clemenceau actually desired a mass Rhineland buffer zone. The British also wanted to punish Germany but not to the same extent as the French (the British were secretly nervous about aggrandising France at Germany's expense, creating a new continental pain in the arse). Britain was more preoccupied with prohibiting a German Navy and also stressed reparations, Great Britain having indebted herself funding the entire war. Wilson stressed national self-determination, a mass redrawing of national boundaries to reflect ethnicity, but Wilson's democratic principles were never going to be well supported by two imperial powers (the British had been locked in a toing and froing with the Indian Congress before the war), who were already coveting former Ottoman territories. The Americans also wanted a quick withdrawal of their army (as did the British).

The Italians wanted some Croatian chunks and got (or felt that they had gotten) utterly shafted, thus paving the way for Mussolini. The Japanese were not too happy either! 

Edited November 13, 2018 by DieselDaisy

[dontdamnmeuyi2015]

My grandfather was born in 1918 after the war.

It seems we are always remembering some war or another.

My daughter learned about WWI in her class last week. I was glad those people are still being remembered.

100 years and we still haven't learned to not have any more wars.

[DieselDaisy]

If Britain and France had opposed Herr Hitler when he, occupied the Ruhr, Anschluss with Austria, swallowed up the Czechs (his generals were going to oust Hitler if Chamberlain hadn't signed Munich); invaded Poland - even as late as Poland, we would have been fighting a western front rather than dropping leaflets saying, ''don't go to war, you'll regret it''. What a bunch of fannys.