Who Was Responsible For The First World War?

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Who Was Responsible For The First World War?

Who caused the deaths of over 20,000,000 people? Was it a single, callous, malicious person? Was it a group of these people or a country that caused the Great War? Or could it have been a system or policy at that time? Who caused the events that inspired the Jewish poet Isaac Rosenburg to write the poem 'Dead Man's Dump' in 1917?

'The wheels lurched over sprawled dead

But pained them not, though their bones crunched;

Their shut mouths made no moan.

They lie there huddled, friend and foeman,

Man born of man, and born of woman;

And shells go crying over them

From night till night and now.'

Private Isaac Rosenburg, 22311, was killed on April 1st, 1918, at dawn while on night patrol. Just another of the 20,000,000 then.

France had completely resented Germany for years. The Franco-Prussian War began in July 1870 as a result of a dispute between France and Prussia, the main German State. All the other German states joined Prussia, and the conflict became one between France and Germany. The war ended with