(08-11-2021, 02:05 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(08-11-2021, 01:42 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: But if it weren't for the Treaty of Versailles... Hitler never would have gained power. Period.

And the funny thing is no one understands why WWI even frigging happened. This is the best explanation, by far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEvuMhP2CuA

Honestly.. a group of moronic Serbians has dictated world history for over 100 years now...

That actually is a pretty decent simplified explanation of how WW1 started.  

I've read several books in the last few months about it.   The more I learn about it, the more I think WW1 is the most important event of the last 150 years.   World War 1 destroyed the old order of Europe, triggered the Russian revolution, redrew the map of the middle east, and directly caused WW2.  And the amazing thing is, it came up out of nowhere.   No one expected it.   But it directly caused the century of warfare and conflict that followed it.  

If you study it, you can see why it happened.  But no one at the time could seem to see what was coming, and no one seized what were multiple opportunities to stop it.  Not only that, we still can't figure out who was to blame for what happened.  It's not enough to say the guy who shot the Archduke caused it.  He just lit the fuse.