2/18/2023 0 Comments What if germany won ww1![]() World War One was the end of a number of things: It led to the collapse of no less than four empires. It had to be the last war because Europe could not have another. But while in 1914 its sentiment was optimistic - positive, even - by 1918 it was desperate. Wells first wrote the phrase in August 1914 and within weeks it had become a mantra. He was making the argument at a time when many in Britain did not believe that the country should join France and Russia in fighting Germany and Austria-Hungary in the war, sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serb nationalist. Wells’ belief was that the militarisation of Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, and particularly the manufacture of heavy armaments and modern weapons, had been pioneered by Germany and had spread outwards, forcing Europe as a whole down the same path. ![]()
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