Friday, January 13, 2017

Who should of won World War 1? My Opinion With Information.

 World War 1 is the first global war fought with modern equipment and many people feel like the United States shouldn't have gotten involved. Many people who agree the United States should of joined the war, always say we would have never been the "superpower" we are today, and the Germans used Unrestricted Submarine Warfare. There are a lot of examples of why we shouldn't have gotten involved, we joined the war mainly because of favoritism. So lets dig in deeper about this lightly touched subject.
 A news article in the United States talked about the British denying the U.S to trade with Germany, and the U.S. obeyed those orders by the British. When the Germans circled around the British Isles, the Germans told them to stop, the United States disobeyed the Germans orders and lives were lost. The United States now had a reason for a declaration for war. So in Spring of 1917, the U.S declared war on the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.). The Russian Empire surrendered before the U.S could join the war, because of the Revolution that was about to take place. Germany now had 1 front...the Western Front. Germany was able to send hundreds of thousands of troops to the Western Front, American troops arrived just in time to repel the "Kaiserschlatt"(Kaiser's Battle) Offensive. Germany and the Central powers surrendered around the time of October 4th-November 11th, 1918. So let's go into why I believe the German Empire should have won the war for the Central Powers.
 The Central Powers were vastly outnumbered it was 4 countries against almost everyone else. The Allied Powers were threatening Greece for not being involved in the war by refusing to trade with them until they would give land where Allied troops could station themselves. By 1916, the Central Powers were winning the "War to end all Wars". Great Britain was considering surrender because of the 1 week food supply to its citizens, and food was running dry from the German blockade. The Central Powers worked hard to protect its citizens but even they suffered food shortages. The point is later on the "Zimmerman Telegram" was "sent" to Mexico to join the Central Powers, if the U.S got involved. This can be proven wrong, Mexico was having serious internal problems with its government. This event was quite known for those problems. Regardless, The U.S was threatening Germany for what Great Britain did to the Germans. The U.S wanted a declaration of war in order to "preserve peace"-Woodrow Wilson.
 We will never know what the outcome would've been if the Central Powers won WW1. There is a video on plans the Central Powers planned to take, and they weren't that bad as the Treaty of Versailles. This is the present day now, WW1 has long past and that is history. Even though it was brutal and sad during those times. I still feel bad about the Germans working hard and trying their best to win the war, but when the did what the British did to them, it's just sad. Regardless, I believe everyone is happy that the war just lasted 4 years and not longer, I agree with that assumption I just don't like the outcome.

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