Someone tell me the story of the World Wars?

Question

i will give 10 points to the best explanation.

and how it led to the Cold War and beyond.

Answer 1

WWI

A Serbian, (really a bosnian) who was a member of a terrorist organization known as the Black Hand assassinated Arch Duke Ferdinand. The story of his assasination was interesting in that there were multiple people in on it. To make a long story short, Austria blamed Serbia for harboring terrorists (sounds familiar huh?)

Germany gave Austria-Hungary the "Blank cheque" which is that Germany will suport Austria-Hungary unconditionally. Austria invades Serbia because Serbia refuses a harsh ultimatum which involves the demilitarization of its armed forces and Austria overseeing of its Sovereignty. Russia who is an ally of Serbia begins a Full Scale Mobilization which triggers Germany's mobilization. (during this time there was coorespondance declaring each others interest in peace, haha we only want peace as we prepare the armies. Russia needed to fully mobilize because their country's sheer expanse and poor logistics was the only way to get its armies fielded. So Germany invades France... WHAT?! See Germany has been preparing for war since the early 1910's and was able to fully build its army before the allies had. In 1914 its plans for war was known as the Schliffen Plan which involved a quick action to defeat France in a single blow and then hurry its troops to the Eastern Front to finish Russia. France was seen as a bigger threat than Russia. Russia was historically backwards in industry and technology as opposed to Europe. Things did not go to plan with Englands entry into the fighting because Germany violated Belgiums Neutrality, despite International treaty. So England was in on the war, also Germany's army bogged down in the Flanking Manuever, so France was not defeated in a timely event. The worst situation is they deviated from the plan to send troops to defend against Russia.

Feel free to throw the pretense of everybody's nationalism into the mix. Everybody's country thought theirs was the best.

The system of alliances were also vague, see the loyalty behind it was dubious and people only sought to serve their own interests. Austria wanted the Balkan territory. Italy who was Germany's ally actually sided with the Allies because Britain promised them the Adriatic territory of old Rome to Italy, so Italy Backstabbed the central powers and got involved in a costly stalemate against Austria. The sickman of Europe, Ottoman Empire was interested in fighting for control of England and France's colonies so they of course hopped in for a good old fight. U.S. cant stay out of anything with profit, so they shipped war materials despite Germany's protest to England. Germany torpedoed the Lusitania, a British passenger liner (which was carrying explosives and small arms to Britain.) This killed a hundred or so Americans, So U.S. jumped on board. (hey everybody was doing it)

The Result of this was the Treaty of Versaille which resulted in blaming Germany for the entire War.  France taking lessons from the Franco Prussian war forced Germany to pay for the cost of France's Defence.  Britain followed suit.  Germany got footed for the bill of the most costliest war.  The Republic that U.S. influenced to be implimented was weak.  It could not protect itself from communism or the paramilitary armies.  Hitler became in charge of such an organization.  The republic at the time made him chancelor in the hopes he would bring n**i backing to their party.  Hitler in charge of the country, swore off reparation payments (in thanks to the U.S. reconstruction of Germany in an attempt to avert the Depression,) Hitler wanted to reunify Germany to greatness and had a lot of sympathy from the treaty of versaille.  He took Czechoslovakia in thanks to appeasement.  Invaded Poland, Started the second war.  See Hitler wanted living space or Lebensraum which entailed a lot of territory for his superior race.  Hitler defeated France because he invested in modernwarfare of rapid movement and mechanized armies.  France fell, Hitler failed to beat Britain in the air war.  So he invaded Russia in order to take Lebensraum.  maybe he got bored of getting his *** kicked, so Hitler started operation Barbabrosa which overwhelmed Russia (in part thanks to Stalin for purging the officer corps.) Russia beat Hitler because they outnumbered Germany in terms of population 3:1, and Hitler became overextended and could not hold out on all fronts.  Throw the Americans in after Pearl Harbor and it was a loosing war with the Allies far outproducing the Axis alliance in Material.  U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan as a message to Russia (look at what we can do!).  Russia never fully trusted the allies, and partly blamed them for the damage they did to Russia.  Russia bore the brunt of the fighting against Germany.  The united states formed a military alliance and excluded Russia from joining it known as Nato in 1948.  Shortly after that aggressory move, Russia detonated its atom bomb.