The Germans had a treaty to protect the Austro-Hungarian Empire in case of a war with Russia. The Russians went to war with the Austro-Hungarian Empire because they had a treaty to protect Serbia in case of a war with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Austro-Hungarian Empire went to war with Serbia because Archduke Ferdinand was blown up by a terrorist who favored Serbia.
Later the French and the British honored their treaties with Russia to protect them in case of a war with Germany. And so 15 or 20 million people died. Aside from that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was broken up into little pieces.
The spark of WW1 in Europe was the assassination of the Austria-Hungary archduke Franz Ferdinand. That led the European countries to declare war on eachother, then their allies had to get invloved, etc. But the sparks that led us to get involved were the sinking of the "Lusitania", a passanger boat that German U-Boats sank wthout warning. 128 American passangers died. Another spark was the Zimmermann telegram. This was a secret telegram sent from Arthur Zimmermann, a German man associated with the government (i forget how) to Mexico, asking them to form an alliance with them and attack America, even though we were neutral at the time. Germany offered them "the reconquering of lost land in america", meaning land like New Mexico, Arizona, etc. Luckily, Great Britain intercepted this telegram, informed us, and then we got so angry at Germany, we delcared war on them.
The Spark that started WWII was the arch duke Ferdinand's Assaination
The explosion of pre-dreadnought Maine led to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.
explosion of the ship the Maine they blamed spian
A SERBIAN nationalist killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. That's the spark in the powder keg.
IF the Spark was the Thornton Affair, the fuse was the annexation of Texas in 1845.
The babyboom!
Don't know what this has to do with "Food & Cooking", but it's the explosion of the Main.... :)
A depression in the ground made by an explosion in that period.
Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria set-off chain reaction of national treaties guaranteeing alliances/protections and they honored those agreements until they were all at war with each other.The spark that caused the first world war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip
Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria set-off chain reaction of national treaties guaranteeing alliances/protections and they honored those agreements until they were all at war with each other.The spark that caused the first world war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip
But Eastern Europe was prior to World War 1. There was a lot of tension between and among the countries and the first spark (the assassination of Ferdinand) set off the explosion.
The invasion of Poland