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The Great War

The Great War. Who’s to Blame?. Who’s to Blame? No one was responsible :

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The Great War

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  1. The Great War Who’s to Blame?

  2. Who’s to Blame? No one was responsible: “None of the Powers wanted a European War…But the verdict of the Versailles Treaty that Germany and her allies were responsible for the War, in view of the evidence now available, is historically unsound. It should therefore be revised”. -Sidney Bradshaw Fay

  3. Who’s to Blame? France and Russia are to blame: “The chief objects of Russian and French foreign policy, seizure of the Straits and the return of Alsance-Lorraine, could be realized only through a general European war…In estimating the order of guilt of the various countries we may safely say that the only direct and immediate responsibility for the World War falls upon Serbia, France, and Russia, with the guilt about equally divided”. -Harry Elmer Barnes

  4. Who’s to Blame? Fate willed the War: “In every country there was an instinctive feeling that the future, for an indefinite period, was at stake, that the nation which did not play its part would be outdistanced in the eternal competition of peoples, and that any sacrifice must be borne to insure the continuance of historic traditions. In the face of this intense nationalism, which had been born of the French Revolution and intensified by the events if the nineteenth century, pacific instincts, socialistic programmes, religious scruples and humanitarian ideals were of no avail”. -Bernadotte E. Schmitt

  5. Who’s To Blame? Germany and its allies are to blame: “The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her Allies”. -Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles

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