This was during WWI after the war had ended and President Woodrow Wilson tried a new way of peace with, his 14 Points.
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In the aftermath of the First World War, the Austria-Hungarian empire splintered due to the tensions of nationalism. Some people argue that Wilson's 14 points, which supported nationalism and the rights of free people to independence, was a catalyst for this. However, I believe that the Austria-Hungarian empire was already under the enormous strains of nationalistic pressures before the war, and it was their defeat in the war itself which precipitated its collapse.
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Stalin's post-war aims was to secure the immediate security needs of the USSR and to establish a base for recovery after the terrible damages of World War II. The war had cost over 20 million Soviet lives and destroyed a large proportion of Soviet industry and Stalin was determined that the Soviet Union be repaid in strategic influence and territory what his country had given in blood. He was especially keen to create a buffer zone of friendly states in Eastern Europe to protect the USSR from further attack from the West. This was to include the Baltic States, Poland, Hungery, Yugoslavia and Romania.\n\nChurchill's main strategy was to ensure the continuation of British-American wartime cooperation which he viewed as vital to mainting British influence on the world. As a keen colonialist, he was also concerned with keeping possesion of British overseas territories, despite increasing stirrings for independence in the immediate post-war period. He was keen to counter the rise of the USSR, particularly it's growing influence in Eastern Europe.\n\nRoosevelt wanted to adopt a modified form of Woodrow Wilson's idealist international vision. He acted early towards creating a United Nations to guarentee collective security, but one that was based on the principles of power politics (in the form of a Security Council). He was keen to try and maintain the wartime alliance as he viewed this as the main avenue for peace being preserved, but scholars differed over how much he trusted Stalin and was willing to accomodate him.
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Definitely not. The country as a whole was not culpable for WWI, and for that matter, the leaders of Germany were not culpable. The whole thing could have been solved diplomatically, but as soon as Archduke Ferdinand was killed, Austria demanded certain things, Serbia refused, and there was a cascade of declarations of war. It's absurd to say that Germany was responsible for all of this. At the very least, Britain and France should have mediated the conflict between Austria and Serbia BEFORE it came to declarations of war.\n\nThere's also the fact that the reparations were not about keeping Germany from doing it again, they were about punishment. All they really needed to do after the war was establish monitoring systems to make sure Germany was not rebuilding a military, the one thing they didn't do.
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That's quite possible.  I've actually been seeing this coming for almost 2 years now.  I never saw a different outcome.  I think that preventing the civil war from happening will actually cause more harm than good.  I saw split the country up now -- even without a war.  The country was manufactured after WW1 and has no business putting together groups of people that dont really like each other.
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Woe.....hey....why stop at WWI .....how 'bout the civil war. The revolutionary war.
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I think Franklin Delano Roosevelt, because his influence is still felt today.  Social programs, foreign policy are still around 61 years after his death.  I think Woodrow Wilson was very influential with his idea for the League of Nations.  Theodore Roosevelt for his belief in the environment and the national park system.  Eisenhower because of the interstate system.  Nixon because we learned that the President was not infallible.  James Monroe because of his writing of the US Constitution.  Thomas Jefferson because of his brilliance and his gift of books that became the Library of Congress.   That's my list.
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Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. After six months of negotiations which took place at the Paris Peace Conference, the treaty was signed as a follow-up to the armistice signed in November 1918 in Compiègne Forest (which had put an end to the actual fighting). Although there were many agreements to the treaty, one of the more important and recognized agreements required that Germany accept full responsibility for causing the war and, under the terms of articles 231-247, make reparations to certain members of the Allies.
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These are just personal opinion, I suppose.\n\n1. Yes, even with better communication, I don't think they would have much that much more progress with peace talks.  Take a look at the Middle East these days.  The difference of opinion was just too high and eventually things would have boiled over anyway.\n\n2. Assuming both sides had telephones, probably not.  He could have just called everyone to wake them up.\n\n3. The Civil War probably wouldn't have changed that much with telephones.  They might have been able to coordinate different armies a bit better, and spies would have been slightly more effective if they had figured out a way to receive calls in the field.\n\n4. Nothing major, I don't think.  We might have gotten built up a bit faster into the IR.
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World War One, the reason the US join was Threefold:\nWoodrow Wilson's efforts to avoid war and broker peace were ignored by both sides\nThe sinking of the Lusitania and other US ships by Germany's submarine fleet.\nGermany trying to get Mexico to attack the US or at least join the German Axis of Power (Zimmerman Telegram)
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1914 was beginning of tribulation that the world had never known as WW1 and a country on soil that had not had to organized power as the rest of the world, this time of tribulation will last 150 years and involve another WW2 and the holocaust.\n\nWas the holocaust a tribulation. The most important thing for the tribulation is the word of God. KJV Bible 1611 + 303 years as an excepted translation = 1914 after Christ.\n\nRev.9:1-5[God's sealed on the scene and the pit is open for Satan 5x 30 = 150 days, as 150 years];\n\n1914 after Christ + 606 before Christ = 2520 from Daniel's prophecy in Babylon #3.\n1914 after Christ + 150 = 2064 after Christ.\n\n2064 after Christ + 606 before Christ = 2670 we are now 2612 from Babylon #3.\nDan.12:11[2x 1290 =] 2580 less 2520 = 60 years + 1914 = 1974 end of Vietnam.\nDan.12:12[2x 1335 =] 2670 less 2520 = 150 years + 1914 = 2064 after Christ.\n\nDaniel in Babylon 3460 after Adam + 2670 = 6130 after Adam + Rev.20:1-6[1000];\n\nI am only impressed by pure bible facts. We have been given everything but the day and the hour Matt.24:3,7,14,15,22,36;
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In World War I, the six major powers were set against each other. At the time, the US was an isolationist (which means that we didn't want to get involved in European affairs) There was a lot of nationalism in the countries, and each country built up their armies. Russia, France, and Britain against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. Noone expected it to cause as many causualties as it did, but since each nation was so powerful, it did. The troops were in trenches, (trench warfare) for several years. At the time, they had machine guns, and the only way to advance was to cross the area between the trenches called "No man's land" When they crossed no man's land, they were mowed down with machine guns. So the generals, instead of looking for other methods, chose instead to send more troops, causing more casualties.
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An extract from President Wilson’s speech to Congress requesting US entry into WW1:\n\n…Peace cannot be had without concession and sacrifice. There can be no sense of safety and equality among the nations if great preponderating armaments are henceforth to continue here and there to be built up and maintained…\n\nAnd in holding out the expectation that the people and government of the United States will join the other civilized nations of the world in guaranteeing the permanence of peace upon such terms as I have named I speak with the greater boldness and confidence because it is clear to every man who can think that there is in this promise no breach in either our traditions or our policy as a nation, but a fulfillment, rather, of all that we have professed or striven for.\n\nThe world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them. \n\n\nThe entire text of the speech can be found at: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww18.htm
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WWI started in 1914 with the assisination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Serbia, US military involment started in 1917\nWWII (I assume that what you mean) started in 1939 with Germany invading Poland, US commits troops in 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Causes of WWI\n\nAlliance System\n-Bismarck wanted to isolate France and protect Germany politically and militarily from Austria\noAlliances were seen as a political deterrent to prevent the militarization of growing tensions between European powers\n-Growing tensions between European powers by 1911\noFrance bitter about Alsace Lorraine territories\noFranco-Prussian War\nDecline of Ottoman Empire\nRise of Nationalism\n•In Balkan Peninsula\noImperialism\nGermany envious of Britain for their growing territories\noCoastal territories\nIndian Ocean\noResources\nFuel for airplanes, etc.\noEconomic tensions\nTariffs grow\nProtectionism\noParanoia from imperialism\nBlocs (1912-1914)\n-Triple Entente\noFrance—anti Germany\noEngland—want to check power of Germany and balance of power in Africa\noRussia—conflicts with Austria from Nationalist movements, Russia helped Balkan Serbia against Austria, Serbia and Russia have common Slovak heritage, closer ties\n-Triple Alliance\noGermany\noAustria-Hungary\noItaly—felt cheated out of territory at Berlin Conference (anti England), against Russians b/c anti-communist, and tension with France\n-Downside: one country against another—pulls in EVERYONE\nBalkan Wars \n-War #1\noSerbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, and other small provinces aided by Russia and Greece oppose Ottomans\noOttomans defeated\n-War #2\noSerbs, Bulgarians in particular squabble over spoils of war and land borders—distracted \noAustria can annex Bosnia and Herzegovina\nSerbia sees this as a loss of their own territory, breach of contract, act of aggression\nFranz Joseph sends Archduke Franz Ferdinand to Sarajevo to “review the books”\noBlack Hand\nTerrorist plot to assassinate archduke\nGavrillo Prinkep jumps out and assassinates archduke\noAustria gives Serbia ultimatum\nAustria wants to control Serbia or else\nAustria annexes Serbia\nRussia replies for Serbia, the annexation of Serbia would be seen as an act of war against Russians\nKaiser Vilhelm\nBlank check, Austrians get all the money they need for war from Germans against Russia\noAustria declares war on Serbia, Russia declares war on Austria, Germany helps Austria/declares war on Russia, France declares war on Germany\noEngland holds back for a while, have caveat\nWWI\n-August 1914\nWestern Front\n-Von Schlifen Plan/Blitz of Germany\noTake over France after starting Berlin, sweep through Belgium, then eastern front\noTakes Russia at least 3 weeks to mobilize\nTelegrams\nPeasant villages\nTransportation\nUniforms\nWeapons \noParis is key to France—go through north sea\no“Let last mine on right brush the column with his sea”\nolong string of German soldiers in control of everything from English channel to German border\noproblems\nBelgians retaliate unexpectedly, defend country\nAppeal to Germans to respect neutrality—then appeal to British for support, agree to help\nGermans assume that British will not help, try to stall them\n•Blockades, blow up bridges, etc.\n-French troops also moving toward Belgian border quickly to hold off Germans, sent them in taxi cabs—frantic move to halt German advance\n-stalemate forms on western front between September 1914 and Christmas/December of 1915\nostalemate exists between 1915-1918\noFirst Battle of Marne\noBelgians and French slow down Germans\noTrench warfare \nIntended to be interim solution until they move ppl to the eastern border\nBecome permanent\n100 miles in either direction—stalemate/moo point\nno one wins territory\n-1818—Armistice Line drawn as temporary solution before Treaty of Versailles \nEastern Front\n-Ottoman Turks\n-Battle of Tannenburg\n-Russians advance in to Austrian territories and Germany, pushed back by Austrians, then Germans respectively (Sep. 1914-1915)\n-Many casualties\n-Italy brought in—switches sides to Triple Entente\n-Bulgaria allies with Austria, Germany\n-Balkans brought into
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The second wworld war would have ended without the use of atomic bomb. but the war offered an opportunity for the U.S to test the bomb which it has produced. The use of that bomb made the Japanese to surrender unilaterally
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The WWI(1914-1918) began as a clash between two coalitions of European countries. The first coalition, known as the Allied Powers, included the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro, and the Russian Empire, japan, and Italy\nThe Central Powers, which opposed them, consisted of the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire and  Bulgaria .\nAlthough the United States initially remained neutral, it joined the Allies in 1917.
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Generally, in a post-war scenario, when the government that was would have collapsed with the victor taking control. With a view to stabilising the situation and  running the state during interregnum the forces that have usurped the power will form a post war government, as an interim measure.