Okay history class for you, the heir to the throne of austria was killed by a jugoslav terrorist. Thats how the whole shit started. It was taken by austria (this is not germany and never was germany) as a reason to start a war against Serbia, then Russia came into play, then austria called germany its ally for help, russia hey stop mobilizing your troops or we will join the fight...., a lot of more allies to each side joined one after another all escalating the situation even more, all with their own special interests. Every fucking european ruler of this time period was involved and many could have prevented it to escalate even more. So the victors gave now the fault for the war to germany alone .... God the whole continent was ruled at this time by assholes on thrones, who were going to war for shitty reasons. Do you think the Brits got their colonies with being nice to the inhabitans, the difference was just that they won.
I can recommend this if you are interested in an extensive account of the events that finally lead to WWI: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sleepwalkers-How-Europe-Went-1914/dp/0141027827/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498756682&sr=8-1&keywords=the+sleepwalkers
Okay history class for you, the heir to the throne of austria was killed by a jugoslav terrorist. Thats how the whole shit started. It was taken by austria (this is not germany and never was germany) as a reason to start a war against Serbia, then Russia came into play, then austria called germany its ally for help, russia hey stop mobilizing your troops or we will join the fight...., a lot of more allies to each side joined one after another all escalating the situation even more, all with their own special interests. Every fucking european ruler of this time period was involved and many could have prevented it to escalate even more. So the victors gave now the fault for the war to germany alone .... God the whole continent was ruled at this time by assholes on thrones, who were going to war for shitty reasons. Do you think the Brits got their colonies with being nice to the inhabitans, the difference was just that they won.
This is a good read about ww1
btw: I recommend this one:
http://www.amazon.de/Sleepwalkers-How-Europe-Went-1914/dp/0141027827/ref=sr_1_1?s=books-intl-de&ie=UTF8&qid=1406045842&sr=1-1&keywords=christopher+clark