Boy was I surprized how little I knew!!!
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcKpWZOalo Eric~

WWI bankrupted the great European powers.
We got all their gold.
That allowed for the US fully emerge after the war as a full-fledged equal for the first time.

Wilson was ill with what has been speculated to be the Spanish flu during much of the post-war negotiations.
It has also been speculated that if he had been able to be more active in drafting the Treaty of Versailles that Germany might not been subjected to such harsh reparations.
Which of course might have prevented WWII.. Maybe..

In many way WWI shaped the rest of the 20th century more than even WWII.

It definitly changed the maps. I think that its prophetic that the pull of one trigger started one world war and a press of a bomb release ended another! Or so we thought and still do! ~~Eric

Small events can have big, big, consequences. :thumbup:

Even without the actions of Gavrilo Princip Europe would have found an excuse to go to war very shortly anyway.

I say words can be the deadliest weapon more lethal and permanent than bullets! One released from the silos of our mind in anger they can never be recalled, explained, excused or forgiven!! Avoid keeping your finger on the trigger! ~Eric

I agree wih you Eric, but I'm afraid that the "finger on the trigger of the atomic bomb", so far seems to have saved us "ordinary people" another Word War; the risk is that this time IF somebody pulls the flipping trigger EVERYONE will pay the consequnces and not only the ordirary people that for centuries have only been gun fodder.

Dana,

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"It has also been speculated that if he had been able to be more active in drafting the Treaty of Versailles that Germany might not been subjected to such harsh reparations.
Which of course might have prevented WWII.. Maybe.."
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History of Europe would have been completely different, perhaps not that many desperate multitudes wouldn't have filled the squares of German cities


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"In many way WWI shaped the rest of the 20th century more than even WWII."
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The end of the WWII represented the birth of today's modern European democracies.

IMHO

My concern in the former USSR Whose minding the silos? Dr Strangelove maybe?

Watched the short film. Just wish they had used WW1 photos instead of WW2. Although the info was interesting.

Eric

I agree with you you're absolutely right, but just think how many aeroplanes carrying bombs are probably flying over our heads every day!

I would say that it's even more worrying the thought of today's state of Chernobyl nuclear pland dome that exploded exactly 27 years ago, look at the photos of that plant today and of he people that are still living near that place!

And then there was Chernobyl!! TKS and here it was~~~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JfdfGMO9wA