Can someone tell me about the First World War in a nutshell??

It was a war between barbed wire and artillery.


Barbed wire won.

germans tried to destroy europe again but the forces of democracy and freedom triumphed.
also trenches

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it was a war between the evil Germans/Austrians and Great Britain/USA as usual.

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>Can someone tell me about the First World War in a nutshell??

Europeans blow each other up in the wackiest ways possible.

A Serbian killed an Austrian prince. Alliances kick in. Trench warfare ensues. Millions die over 4 years. Eventually the Central Powers surrender.

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>>31603701
It fucking sucked.
Age of modern rifles, artillery, planes and submarines, yet soldiers got shit done with things like maces.
Pic is German trench mace.

>>31603730
Only on the Western Front. Eastern front was pretty much maneuver warfare, at least the first years, and it's quite impressive, really, if you look at the maps and rerelease how they barely had any communication tools and mostly walked on foot.
Hold on, let me find it...

Fuck I cant find it now, I can't be bothered.

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>>31603793
And a civilized, British trench mace.

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Golden age of naval camo, tho.

>>31603819
Damn girl you sexy

Start here, OP:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A

>>31603853
The Great War, as well made and intriguing as it is, is more like a 15 volume subscription of textbooks rather than a crash course.

>>31603701
>Politics Wise
A series of complex military alliance's between major European nations was established to maintain a balance of power in Europe. When war was declared, the pride and arrogance of the monarchs who ruled those nations prevented them from de-escalating the conflict and see it through until the end

>Military Wise
During the initial skirmishes and battles fought on the outset of the war. Tactics were based on Mobility and offensive doctrine. But weaponry at the time benefitted a stationary and defensive doctrine. Outdated strategies clashed with modern weaponry. Trench warfare became the norm now. And both sides were developing new technologies to break the stalemate of trench warfare. As trench warfare is a war of attrition the Central Powers could not keep paying the cost and with the arrival of the US in the war, fresh men and equipment, it was GG for the Central Powers.

>>31603882
Suggested reading? Mainly Western and Italian Fronts, as well as the Gallipoli Campaign?

Something(s) exhaustive, and relatively free of the blame game?

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So much artillery. So, so much artillery.

>>31603701
Try Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Blueprint for Armageddon

>>31604916
very awesome series
6 parts each roughly 4 hours each
very in depth and gives a good human view of the war

>>31603701
>Serbia kills the Austrian heir
>Austria attacks Serbia
>Russia is pissed
>Russia attacks Austria
>Germany has to attack Russia and Serbia too, because bro code
>Russian allies are pissed
>France and Britain join the war, because muh Entente
>Eastern front goes full movement war
>Western front sees that barbed wire and artillery
>Austria and Germany realize that you are fucked when you are the middle one in a sandwich

>>31603844
holy fuck its beautiful

>>31605136
Pls be b8

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>Age of modern rifles, artillery, planes and submarines, yet

>>31605994
fuck off you know it's true

>but Germany was the aggressor
just fuck off

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>>31606319
I want to get a tattoo on my back with a gas-masked imperial German rider like that but people will always mistake the helmet and gas mask with WW2 Wehrmacht and call me a Nazi

feels bad

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>>31606362

>MFW some normalfag refers to an early model stalhelm as a "nazi helmet" or a Swiss commercial production Luger as a "nazi pistol".

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>>31606362
feel you

The subhuman krauts wanted to destroy the civilized world for no other reason but their monstrous inferiority complex.

The holy coalition of Western Civilization slained the eternal hun easily, thank god.

Krauts got slaughtered pretty bad all throughout the war.

>>31606362
>>31606486

where are you from?

if you are American or from another allied power why would you want to put the enemy on your body.

I mean i appreciate WWI and WWII German stuff but i wouldn't want to wear the stuff or get a tattoo because i would feel shame.(grandfather fought in WWII and other family fought in WWI).

But im not oppose to having WWI/WWII central/axis powers stuff, i see it as a part of history/war trophy.

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>>31606558

>>31603701
just watch this youtube channel
they are fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar

>>31606558
It took 37+ million coalition soldiers to defeat German + Hungaro-Austrian soldiers 21 million.

The lost 5 million soldiers compared to 3.5 million German and Hungaro Austrian soldiers.

>slained the eternal hun easily
>krauts got slaughtered

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>>31606579
I'm from Germany, of course.

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>>31606641
then go ahead and get raided by merkel and her secret police then thrown in jail for having loving das mutterland.

pic related im the kind of Burger who starts the "U-S-A" chant.

>>31606698
in short: ignorant and dumb
congatulations

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>>31606698
>get raided by merkel and her secret police then thrown in jail for having loving das mutterland.
Eternal burger actually believes this.

>>31606329
>>31606343
>Germany doesn't join and stops begging Austria on with promises of help
>Austria gets utterly ass-invaded in a month at most
>back to business as usual
Fuck Germany, shame they surrendered before we could glass them.

>>31606625
Do they not have sarcasm from where you are from?

>>31606742
>Fuck Germany, shame they surrendered before we could glass them.
>Joining the war only after it was sure you won't lose
Only retards fight useless wars e.g. Hitler

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>>31606719
it was a joke.......but.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/13/12170590/facebook-hate-speech-germany-police-raid

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/04/07/police-raid-social-media-posts/

http://www.europeancivilwar.com/why-im-relieved-the-german-government-is-going-1984-and-raiding-apartments-over-internet-comments/


but then again im also a BBQ loving reb so i can kind of understand the media misrepresenting. So enlighten me.

>>31606758
Sarcasm is always lost on Germans.

industrial revolution-nationalism-axis and allies-artillery-machinegun-trenches-gas-tanks-allies won axis lost

>>31606815

>breitbart.com
Into the trash it goes

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thg guy did a bunch of threads on it, don't know if you'll find them helpful.
https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/29240209/
https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/29316929/
https://desuarchive.org/k/thread/29499459/

>>31606758
>Germans
>Humor
Choose, Desu

>>31606815
We already had a similar situation with the Yugoslavia war, when loads of refugees came here, Germany was still busy with the Unification and still managed to take over 350.000 refugees(yes, there are more now). But over 90% of them went back home after the war, people don't like to stay in a country which language they don't understand.

>>31606995
no love milo?(joking, i know you wont get it unless i tell you).

but its not like the left is going to cover something they does go along with their narative. So dont expect a link to CNN.
and when it is reported by the left, its skewed:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36804363

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/23/europe/germany-raid-right-extremists/

(that last one isnt the best but it has no info or quotes about the arrested).

even youtube stop letting ian use nazi flags with nazi era weapons.

>>31607027
yeah but the yugos had some where to go back too and you can look at the past 20 years. The middle eastern foreigners rarely go back.

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Dumping what little I have in my WW1 folder.

>>31607027
You've got a credible source on the 90%?

Last numbers I've seen were 60% stayed, 20% moved to a different country, only 20% went back home.

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Read up you /k/unts.

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>>31603844
wow that was worth the read

thanks for the post anon

>>31607076
It was in the news paper two or three weeks ago, just googled it and only found this from 2003 when 30% were still here.
http://www.efms.uni-bamberg.de/ds27_2_d.htm

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>>31607043
There are still enough quality newspapers in Germany to get a decent picture what is going on - and the Germans indeed have very strict laws when it comes to right-wing rhetoric or symbols.
That doesn't make a site like breitbart a credible source - even Fox news tells less bullshit.

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>>31606625
Nothing compared to WW2, allies with 61 million casualties while the axis only had 12 million.

Germans are gods of warfare, it always takes the entire world to take down Germany when it gets angry.

>>31603736
again? when did we try that before ww1?

>>31603701
loss of millions of worthwhile European genes

sad stuff

>>31605840
>>31607146
Technically not 100% correct, or really 40% correct, but a fun read.

>>31607179
>quality newspapers in Germany
I suppose i would need to know German to read those.

and B4 "dumb American isnt bilingual" I do speak Spanish.

>>31603701
Women knew their place

>>31603701

End of the late modern era. End of the Ottoman empire. End of European monarch power. Begginging of the end for Europe. Really just a closing and new start of new types of political systems. Massive liberalization and the first era of machines.

>>31607301
Would never imply that - for an American Spanish is way more useful as a second language.

But seriously - I've noticed that the news about other countries usually show a very warped picture, especially in the US.
It really helps to check against local (quality) news sources - even if you need to use Google Translate you'll get better content than on cable news.

>>31603738
the fact that France isn't in the game pisses me off to no end, that and the "blackwashing" assuming they keep that shit in there

>>31606580
>posting a Jew from Germany (Karl Marx)
don't lump krauts with kikes

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>>31603701
For starters try "the Great War" by Hew Strachen or the documentary series of the same name.

>>31607124
How the fuck am I supposed to read all that?

>>31607569
Reading a lot isn't actually any different that reading just a little, it just takes more time.

>>31607569
Can't read anything longer than a 4chins post? :^)

>>31603701
>WW1 in a nutshell
Everyone is a bad guy. Nothing is good about the war. "Millions are being killed. Europe is mad. The world is mad." Outdated concepts not working with modern equipment. Germans not any worse than anyone else, but raped at Versailles, setting up WWII. Everyone considers Germans the bad guys nowadays.

>>31607435
i still dont believe that i will get quality non bias news, even where i live in a small town i know that the news from one news paper to the other can be grossly different.

>>31603701
>WW1 inna nutshell
Along time ago in a Europe Philosophically Far Far Away....
British Empire and Germany got into an arms race trying to justify increased naval build up, which was a source of pride for nations back in the day. This led to tensions rising between them.
Meanwhile, The Austro-Hungarian Empire has their new Archduke assassinated in Sarajevo by Pro-Russian, Pan-Slavic anarchists who are pissed at Austrian oppression of their people for centuries.
This enrages the Austrians, and they invade Serbia, which the Russians dont like and threaten war over.

Austrians are freaked out by this and ask Germany to assist. The germans accept.
This prompts the Russians to seek alliance with the French and British.

A war that began over the occupation of Serbia begins conflict because of a German invasion of France.
The rest is history, basically LOTs of killing, with all beligerents using tactics made frighteningly obsolete by industrialized warfare.
Western front (France) becomes deadly stalemate. Eastern Front has a lot of dying and is so unpopular in Russia that there is a Revolution, giving birth to Soviet Union. Allied powers get fucked by Turk Roaches at Gallipoli, and the warplane and tank are born.

Burgerland joins in at the last minute because the Germans are fighting dirty and public opinion turns the formerly neutral populace against the Hun.

When the war ends, everyone blames Germany for everything and inflicts severe reparations and military restrictions, which prompts the rise of the Nazis 15 years later.

>>31607254
Roman empire, for example.

Collection of "over the top" moments in film in descending order of historical accuracy (in my view).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciq9ts02ci4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdXceY4GuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AWBCKYMHZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYWlhwmxg7g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUox_hQAih8

>>31607920
Not OP, but that was pretty well put. Good jaorb.

>>31604114
The First World War by Martin Gilbert is a pretty good take, though be warned the author was a self-proclaimed Zionist and there's a lot of Jew propaganda in there, as well as an unnecessary focus on Jews in general
The John Keegan book is good too, without the Jew shit, but with the tradeoff of a less in-depth study and fewer sections on the experiences of individual soldiers

>>31604114
See >>31607124
>>31608167
Keegan is really clinical with the "top-down" military history, which isn't a bad thing per se.

>>31608200
I don't mind it too much, but I also like to have the experiences of the lone man thrown in there. Otherwise it's easy to lose grasp on the fact that each one of the, say, million dead in Verdun was a human being with their own memories, dreams, thoughts, hopes.

>>31606393
The Luger thing is excusable, it's the iconic 'nazi pistol', and will be recognized as such no matter where or when it's produced.

But the helmet thing is retarded, yeah.

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>>31608302

>>31607513
They are, they just aren't in the MP (of which you can actually choose character skin, unlike other battlefield game. Although disabled in alpha and beta) until DLC. They are present, but not playable, in the single player campaign (you can even here french in the 12 minute gameplay video).

It's really dumb that french are dlc though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ys4q3LauLQ

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>>31607513
Play Verdun then.

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>>31608395
>Germany declares shotguns inhumane
>Meanwhile they're torching trenches

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>>31603819
I've put a lot of though it dazzling one leg and my opposite arm.

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>>31603738
>it's not a problem that all the british soldiers are black because IT'S JUST A GAME BRO
>going out of their way to use that retarded "historically accurate" phonetic alphabet

>>31608473
>Crossbow launched explosives
I've heard of spigot mortars and slingshots, but I never knew they made crossbows/ballistae.

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>>31603736
>germans tried to destroy europe again but the forces of democracy and freedom triumphed.
How disillusioned can you even be? My god.

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>>31603701

Everyone pretty much gets it wrong and they're stupid. It wasn't as hellish as everyone would keep memeing about, and I wish I could punch those cunts in the face for spreading bullshit.

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>>31608615

sure kiddo

>>31608615
>b8

>>31608622

It wasn't. Did you watch that shitty video with the cow mooing and black and white shit? It wasn't that grim.

A lot of misconceptions that are really dependent on where you were, what part of the war or battle it was, and so on and so forth.

>>31608387

Don't do that. It's a shit game that is made super boring by the fact that there's only 32 people per map. How do you fuck up a war game like that? How?

>>31608647
>A lot of misconceptions that are really dependent on where you were, what part of the war or battle it was, and so on and so forth.
Riveting, unique insight there Anon. You should write a book and set the record straight.

>World War I: Not as bad as everyone memes
>By Anon

I think the last WWI vet died a few years ago, so you should be good to go.

>>31608838

Do you believe that "lions led by donkeys" shit? Or that they were in the trenches for months at a time and under constant bombardment?

>>31608883
According to Trevor Wilson, Commonwealth troops on the Western Front were on average rotated on a three week to one month basis, although extended operations typically demanded longer stays. In fact, some were in the front lines for several months during the Hundred Days Offensive. The French, as another example, implemented Petain's idea of "Noria", of rotating combat units out of the Verdun trench lines on a regular basis, unlike the Germans that had their units worn down to the nub.
Nevertheless, I don't think that discounts the magnitude of the horrors of the Western Front, or any other theatre of the First World War.

>>31608883
I've never read The Donkeys. Of course not, units were rotated in and out of the trenches unless it was impractical (long operations) and bombardments generally were before attacks not just constant.

>>31608957
I find John Laffin and Alan Clark's viewpoints understandable, but woefully lacking in scholarship with regards to WWI. It's interesting to see that men like Haig were hailed as heroes in the 1920s. However, later with the resurgence of memoirs by soldiers and politicians exposing Haig's failings, as well as the increasing popularity of Lloyd George's quite eloquent, if self-aggrandising personal account, Haig's reputation has not been exactly lionised.
I think that the whole "Lions Led by Donkeys" attitude has a grain of truth to it, but is also a gross simplification of the conduct of the war. As a critique of the cowardice of the generals leading to mass slaughter of the ranks, it doesn't really hold up, as exceptionally brave generals such as Charles Mangin could be just as sanguinary in the commitment of troops into the meatgrinder as their contemporaries at the rear HQ.
From the perspective that the generals wanted glory and fame while disregarding the plight of their men, then there's certainly a case to be made here, particularly regarding leaders such as Luigi Cadorna, or Conrad von Hötzendorf, although the latter was a much more complex individual than many give him credit for. Woefully incompetent as a coordinator of grand strategy, but not quite the absolute nincompoop that he is made out to be either; indeed, Alistair Horne rated him a finer officer than Falkenhayn, interestingly enough. As for Haig, it could be said that he genuinely believed in the ability of his forces to effect breakthrough in 1916, and according to OHL dispatches, the Somme campaign following the disastrous first day almost did culminate in breakthrough - not that it stopped fifteen German divisions being routed around to Verdun anyway.
(Cont'd)

>>31609278
As for Haig, he retained a parochial fascination with massed cavalry assaults well into the 1920s, while also entertaining the dialectic of acknowledging the tank as the premiere breakthrough tool. Haig, as such, was a man of many contradictions, requiring the sanding of roads for his daily horse rides during the Somme operations, and also displaying a surprising level of compassion for wounded troops and his subordinates during and after the war. It was more likely ignorance and hubris, therefore, that led to the fruitless deaths of men at battles such as Passchendaele and Broodseinde, and it was also a sharp realisation of British dispositions and morale, that led to his petitioning of Ferdinand Foch for the cancellation of a preliminary offensive in the weeks before the Hundred Days.
On opposite sides, you have Clark and Terraine, facing off in their depictions of generals on the Western Front; the French have their own debate in the form of Joffre and Nivelle, two men that possibly and inadvertently caused the military loss of French life since the Napoleonic Wars; in Italy, many despise Cadorna, despite roads and squares bearing his name; in Germany, Falkenhayn; and so on for the travesties that occurred in Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empires.
This is not a defence of Haig or any other general, or an apology for them either; rather, it's just a summation of what I believe to be a complex and ultimately unsolvable historiographical issue.

I wrote far more than I was expecting to, sorry about that.

Germany caused everything. Europe was saved by the British Empire

>>31608838
>the last WWII vet will die in your lifetime
Feels bad man.

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>>31608926
>>31609278
>>31609289
Always a pleasure to read your posts.

>>31608473
Are these from a specific documentary?

>>31607202
>it always takes the entire world to take down Germany when it gets angry.

so it's unfortunate that Germany keeps pissing off the entire world

Bump because I've actually learnt a lot from this thread.

>>31610852
They're mostly from:
Apocalypse: World war I (http://m.imdb.com/title/tt3638584/plotsummary?ref_=m_tt_ov_pl)
The great war (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_(documentary)
And the British Pathé archives (http://www.britishpathe.com/workspaces/page/ww1-the-definitive-collection)

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>>31603701
End of european hegemony, end of ottoman and austro-hungarian empires, successful communist uprising, beginning of the american hegemony. First big industrial war. Paved the way for the spanish flu in europe, WW2, decolonization and cold war.

Also wonderful camo schemes.

>>31608453
The speed at which they can load and fire that thing is nuts. I can only imagine how scaldingly hot the gun would get after a minute or two of sustained fire at that pace.

>>31608302
>15 years old
>decorated with the croix de guerre
Holy shit

>>31603701
turf war between established crime families. people stuck in retard mindset decide to get slaughtered instead of shooting their officers and staging a workers revolution. Except in russia.
>>31607027
>people don't like to stay in a country which language they don't understand.
so they congregate in ghettos and speak their own language only venturing out to steal, rape or claim benefits.
go speak the krautchan guys, they'll tell you what's happening.

>>31607152
everyone in that picture is dead.
kinda sad.

>>31603844
died at the Britain getting pist

>>31603701
Black people fought white people wars.

Europe was 90% black before WW1 but aftre it it was only 70% after WW2 it was 10% but thankfully it's rising again.

>>31613278
I am a Kraut, yes they congregate, but those are mudslimes and not niggers, they are too stupid and too lazy to steal. There is nothing happening, besides the few that will try to blow themselves up, but as we saw in the past the ones here are even too stupid to do that properly.

>>31603701
1/?
So baisically in warfare theres usually a wing or branch of the military that is used to exploit a battlefield victory. Used to be cavalry. For several thousand years. Then machine guns became a thing, and suddenly people dont really know how to turn a won battle into something meaningful anymore. Later tanks, airplanes, and better logistical support will resolve this but for roughly 3.5 years each side threw large masses of men inbetween the cogs of massed artillery pieces while throwing in novel concepts, ideas, and inventions to see if anything can replace the function cavalry used to fill.

In the west, this turns into a stalemate after initial german victories capture a good chunk of france by catching the french flat footed with how concentrated their flanking force was. Sometimes generals will accumulate enough shells to blow up a section of the front they need to capture and take it with heavy losses. Usually it gets taken right back by the other sides counter arty counter attack.

In the east, armies move and smash into eachother rather haphazardly. As one side gains the upper hand, they gain some ground but quickly find themselves far past supply lines and unable to make much out of their victory without fresh troops, bullets, shells, and food. Then they get pushed back. There is movent of hundreds of miles but its essentially the same stalemate.

Oh the austro hungarians are hilariously inept by the way. They get smashed by the goddamn serbs right after they first invade despite a 2:1 advantage. Outdated equipment, insufficient supply, fractured leadership, communicating in a half dozen languages and so forth all contribute to very poor performance. Evevntually their allies will come help kill the serb but by the time thats done the AH are so weakened the cant really even launch meaningful offensives anymore. They do better against the russians at least (by which i mean they quickly flux in gaining and losing ground.

>>31603844
Anon delivers! Thanks! That was great.

>>31613491
Eventually the germans bribe kebab into coming in and britain bribes italy into coming in amd the war expands. France and GB bring in colonials to help offset their huge losses while russia just keeps drawing from the same pool. AH is baisically held together with tape and string after the first year or so but manages to get by with german backing.

Italy attacks over the same river (Isonzo?) like 10 times but never gets anywhere. Kebab tries to take some colonies from GB and france but does rather poorly. GB throws some colonials at the dardenelles to try and quick KO the turks but it flops and they just feed that meat grinder out of frustration for several months before giving up.

Russia eventually starts losing so many people that their government has a loss of legitamacy and the tsar gives up being tsar after lots of people revolt from no bread for 6 months. Provisional government attempts to continue war for a while but is cooped by reds. Civil war in russia as it withdraws from the war.

Germany pulls its eastern forces and throws them into france with one last push. Oh theyre pretty much no bread for 24 months because of british blockade. Europe doesnt produce enough food to feed itself in peace let alone wartime. Theyre running out of most other materials and are melting church bells at this point for steel.

Last push fails, france and GB push in with reserves theyve been building for a while along with some amerifats who have come over as well. Overwhelming numbers of shells and men win the push. Rudementary combined arms is established and they have fancy new stuff like tanks and advanced artillery support (creeping barrage is an example.)

Germans are slowly pushed back. Plan to keep holding at least until they start losing german territory. GB suddenly activates troops theyve been hoarding in greece and collapses the whole southern flank of AH.

Central powers realize the jig is up and white flag.

>>31603844
>Germany giving a fuck about Serbia
>France giving a fuck about Serbia
>Russia not giving a fuck about Serbia
Couldn't read any farther

>>31613566
>they have fancy new stuff like tanks and advanced artillery support (creeping barrage is an example.)
Tanks and creeping barrages were already a thing in 1916, not just by the end of the war - although you're right about their integration, which mostly got figured out by the end of the war.

>>31613591
Right, important to note that it wasnt that they had new stuff that made larger advances possible. It was that they had learned how to use it all effectively and in conjunction with eachother to overcome a variety of obstacles.

This combined arms approach is what allows an exploitation of a battlefield victory, even with the heavy losses associated with the (relatively) confined space of the western front.

>>31607920
>A war that began over the occupation of Serbia
Keep in mind that every single party, even Austria Hungary, had goals other than A. invading Serbia and B. aiding their allies.

Germany wanted to give Russia an asskciking before it could become a global power.
Austria Hungary wanted to expand into the Balkans.
Ottomans wanted to seize Brit/French colonies.

France wanted revenge, and the Alsace/Lorraine back.
Brits wanted to get rid of the German Navy ( you did mention that one)
Russia wanted to become that global power, and wanted to casually liberate some more Slavs.

Basically, everyone was armed, everyone had some score to settle or objective to achieve, and it was just this tiny incident that caused some big shit to hit an even bigger fan.

>>31613351
>There is nothing happening
did you miss new years in Cologne.

>>31603701

A war where Europe died, and for stupid reasons.

And dont forget about the Influenza outbreak that the war helped spread, which killed more people than the war itself.

>>31603701

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjt452YzkM

Awesome series on the leaders of the time.

>>31613659
>France wanted revenge, and the Alsace/Lorraine back.
French revanchism was practically dead by 1914.

>>31603819

I can't see anything

>>31615550
And cholera.

>>31606579
> why would you want to put the enemy on your body.
Because they aren't my enemy you fucking autist. None of us were alive then, and almost everyone on this board lives in a country that is on good terms with Germany and Austria.

>>31615373
Just some bitches got grabbed by the pussy - nothing special, even presidential candidates do it.

>>31613351

>Ignoring Cologne
>Ignoring the increase in Rape across the whole of Germany
>Ignoring the jihadis

Are you blind on purpose?

>>31603701
>Can someone tell me about the First World War in a nutshell??
everything popular history tells you about it is wrong
everything found in actual history works, no one knows about

Germans Austrians and ottomans won the war that Serbia started but got fucked by Jews with treaties and are treated as losers of and starters of the war to this day

>>31615924
>Germans Austrians and ottomans won the war
wut

>>31608494
You know what pissed me off most?
They gave pilots (well everyone actually) chutes. Battlefield dogfighting is boring as hell because you can bail at any moment and survive. It could have been so tense and exciting if you were trapped in those planes and actually had to fly smart to avoid death, or bailing meant falling a few hundred yards like a sack of potatos.