did the Germans cause World War One AND World War Two???
2007-01-21 05:37:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Kinda.
There was an assassination in Sarajevo which caused the Austrians to declare war; the Germans had an alliance which caused them to side with Austria. France, Russia & Germany had military plans that made them rush to strategic battle areas (as opposed to give time for diplomacy to work) and Germany's Imperialist powers were both arrogant and very feudal in their approach to conflict. The end of WW1 caused some strict conditions to be placed on Germany, ultimately leading to the rise of Nazi political power.
WW2 came about due to Germany's aggressive actions in Poland, Finland and Czechoslovakia.
So, yes, Germany was to blame.
As this is probably homework, the world you live in today (conflict in the middle east) is directly related to these wars and how the powers dealt with the conflict. It may be a simple question on paper, but it's a deeper story and one worth learning about - start with Wikipedia for a primer.
PS http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=?qid=20070116164628AA9BSxv is my longer answer to a similar question.
2007-01-21 05:52:31 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, definitely World War II. Not so sure about WWI. This had been brewing for many years. There were the opposing alliances between the Great Powers. There was an arms race, certainly between Britain and Germany in building ever larger and more powerful battleships ('dreadnoughts'). It can be argued that Germany was preparing for a war with its Schlieffen Plan which laid out in meticulous precision how mobilisation should take place. Of course, the immediate cause was the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gabriel Princip in Sarajevo. However, that really was just the straw that broke the camel's back. had it not been for all these preparations, maybe the world could have pulled back from the brink - and we would be living in a very different one today.
2007-01-21 05:50:43 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
WW1 was caused when on June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip (Serb member of the Young Bosnia secret society. He is sometimes nicknamed "The Man Who Started World War I".) shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand , the heir to the Austrian throne. The event, known as the assassination in Sarajevo, prompted the Austrian action against Serbia that led to World War I. Other complex events also helped.
The Germans were part of the "Central Powers" (Austria-Hungary, the German Empire, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire). They didn't started the war but they surely weren't sad about going to war and they were the strongest enemy against the "Allied Powers" (France, the Russian Empire, the British Empire, and later Italy and the United States).
The Germans took as a personal offense loosing WW1 and that made them start WW2.
2007-01-21 06:01:06 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WWII: Yes.
WWI: The deserve some of the blame, because Kaiser Willhelm gave a blank check to Austria Hungary that whatever happened, they could count on German support. Without that, A-H would have been far more willing to negotiate with Serbia to avoid a war with Russia. But while Germany wasn't blameless, there was too much going on to say Germany, or any one country, caused the war.
2007-01-23 02:23:48 · answer #4 · answered by Captain Hammer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Germans were not the cause for the first world war. That was caused by intertwining alliances culminating in the Archduke Ferdinand and wife being assassinated in Serbia which was an ally with Russia who was allied with France and England(czarina was related to Queen Victoria). the Austrian Hungarians were alllied with the Germans and Ottoman Turks.
The second World War was caused by German over-aggression and territorial aggrandisement or the quest for more territory using the excuse of trapped Germans in that country culminating in the invasion of Poland in Sept. 1939.
2007-01-21 06:30:32 · answer #5 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
World war II was caused by the Germans being pissed off about paying for WW I. WW I was caused by the Assination of Arch Duke Ferdidnan.
2007-01-21 05:47:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Germans definitely started WWII, but WWI was started when Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarejevo by a Bosnian rebel.
2007-01-21 05:54:40 · answer #7 · answered by jedi_junkie05 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
WWII: Germany holds the vast majority of the blame for obvious reasons. But Europe's unwillingness to stop Hitler(see the Munich Conference; reoccupation of the Rhineland[which Hitler admitted it was the scariest moment in his life because of the fear of a pre mature war]) and American refusal to get involved gives them just as much responsibility.
2007-01-21 06:04:39 · answer #8 · answered by travis_a_duncan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
international conflict II. It confirmed the international precisely what a man or woman is able to (Holocaust) what a rustic and it is each body is able to attaining at the same time as they're mutually on a united the front, the discovery of the Atomic Bomb (Hiroshima, Nagasaki) And it funnelled to the chilly conflict.
2016-10-15 21:36:58 · answer #9 · answered by cohan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Germans invaded France to start WW I. Germans invaded Poland to start WW II.
2007-01-21 05:45:23 · answer #10 · answered by Nicole B 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋