HIST 2200Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Aspirin, Hans Kelsen, Arthur Balfour
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Picture adolf hitler celebrating the beginning of the war. Once the war started, the nationalized middle class celebrated the start. Social democratic parties agreed to start a strike (closing down railways, hence cannot move soldiers) if the war started, that was the idea although did not happen. French socialists voted for war credits, italian socialist party voted no for war. The origins of the communist parties come from the spit of the socialists parties credits because of wwi. Germany was to blame for the start of the war because they wanted to punish. Serbia for the murder of frederland, gave a black check. England thought if germany won then they would control the whole continent and put the empire at risk. Central powers germany, austria-hungary, turkey (the ottoman empire) Allies france, russia, italy, great britain, belgium, greece, serbia, romania, Neutral nations spain, norway, sweden, switzerland, denmark, iceland. Hindenburg prussian-german field marshal, second president of germany.