Origins of World War I (2 of 2)

Part 2 of video explaining the events which led to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914

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• Alliances

[wahaya2]

@RicaeAndrews I guess they're thinking in terms of the fact that the Second Boer War was a British victory; hence one could say the overall outcome was a British victory. You're right though, that's a rather crude way of looking at it...

[casperblack30]

@RicaeAndrews He means total defeats also South African Republic was controlled by Europeans

[RicaeAndrews]

Wait a minute, for the first time in modern history a European power was defeated by a non-European one. What about the First Boer War, where Transvaal trumped the Brits.

[Crackajack69]

@saleemalbuz hmmmm yes it is.. Lots of cases of the world repeating itself.....

[hcs9312]

@GiveMeLiberty3 well, he was born in rural Bosnia (in the small and poor village of Obljaj) to a Serbian family

[davidshazusa]

Top Imperialist aka Blood Sucker Powers of the World

Britian, USA, Russia, Japan, China

France, Spain, Portugal, Germany...................!

[GLOWoftheABYSS]

Old as my grandfather ass

[ulaghchi]

BAD QUALITY!

[www9311]

@bies21 The other Powers united against Wilhelm and Germany to guard against the German attempt to intrude on their dominance. Germany's only real ally was Austria-Hungary, which had no colonies. Colonialism had everything to do with the forming of the alliances, and thus had everything to do with the origins of World War I.

[www9311]

@bies21 aight here we go: While the specific reasons for the formation Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente lied in the diplomatic maneuvering of Bismarck and subsequent ill-advised foreign policy of Wilhelm II, and other nations' responses to the rise of Germany, colonialism was the thing that necessitated the formation of alliances at all.