HIST 202 Lecture : part 2.docx
2 Apr 2013
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You really couldn t ignore what was happening. How could they treat each other like that and be at the head of the world. Places change, 4 empires collapse, families changes, atheist movement s rise. This number does not even include the 20-40 million people who die of the flu epidemic in 1918. What they ve really done has changed the nature of the european story. France and germany; britain and germany; austria and russia; France goes back to the franco-prussian war. Tension between france and germany has been there, it makes for some very strange bed fellows. People are playing a power politics game. Britain and germany; this shouldn t be a problem because they share relatives in the monarchy. Comes down to the german emperor, he offended everybody. The english felt he was pushy and aggressive. Edward vii, was a man who loved to live life to his fullest, and the emperor of germany couldn t stand him.
