3-2-1 Summary

3 Things I Learned

1. Germany was blamed for starting the war. However, Germany did not declare war first.
2. During World War I, there was a rise in militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism.
3. The war cost $338 billion, which is still an enormous amount of money even in today's society.

2 Things That Interested Me

1. From U.S.'s own Woodrow Wilson's Fourteenth Points, the League of Nations, an international peacekeeping organization was created. Although created by the U.S. president at the time, Woodrow Wilson, ironically the U.S. did not participate in the League of Nations in order to practice isolationism.
2. The creation of the new weapons of war such as poison gas, the machine guns, tanks, airplanes and the submarine amazes me. The fact that the first time all of these weapons were used was in the first World War, is simply amazing. Not only were they just created when they were used, but all of these inventions are less than 100 years old and created in the 20th century. These weapons are still relatively new and perhaps have yet to be perfected.

1 Question I Still Have

1. I still don't understand why Germany was blamed for the war. It seems like they received the short end of the stick in all of this. Germany wasn't the first country to declare war, so why are they to blame?