what was the blunder of WWI?

Answer 1

Hi, Anna,

The common wisdom is that there were so many entangling alliances that the world got dragged into a war that began as a minor conflict over an assassination.

George Washington warned us against such alliances in his Farewell Address. It is one thing to go to the aid of a true friend like Britain over a common cause of freedom, but quite another to jump into a free-for-all.

World War I was not a war with an unadulterated evil aggressor, as was World War II. The misery and slaughter created over so little was unprecedented.

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Answer 2

One blunder was the Lusitania medallion. http://www.psywarrior.com/GermanWWIPSYOPcont.html

A second blunder was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/ferdinand/

A third blunder was the two front war. http://library.thinkquest.org/10927/leadwwi.htm

A fourth blunder was the release of Marshal (Vojvoda) Radomir Putnik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Campaign_(WWI)

A fifth blunder was German unrestricted submarine warfare
http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/germany/lectures/17silentdict.html

Of course what some people consider to be a blunder others do not.

John F Kennedy said when the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba failed that victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Answer 3

In what aspect are we talking about the greatest blunder that lead to the war, the greatest blunder during the war (tactical, social, propaganda-wise) or the greatest blunder in the ending of the war.

What comes to mind first is the treaty. Huge repayment, total blame, total disarmament, giving up crucial land, they were just asking for Germany to fight back later on.

Answer 4

The Treaty of Versailles was created as a result of WWI; it truly led to the uprising of Hitler and the Holocaust. The restrictive rules it placed on Germany was just enough to get the Germans to rally behind Hitler because of the anger it created, but it was not restrictive enough to stop them from raising an army large enough to murder 11 million people.

Answer 5

Putting the I after the WW. If they had just called it World War, no one would have thought to have another. But that I totally called out for a II to take place.