In August a Great War broke out in the center of Europe. Because European powers colonized so much of the world, it became the first World War. Germany was brought into this war because they had an alliance with Austria-Hungary. Russia had also mobilized their troops to the German border and said that it was just a precaution. Germany's size was about 209 thousand square miles with around 67 million people in 1914. Germany had an enormous army …
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…reason and it was totally unfair to the Germans. Also if the German leader Georg Leo Von Caprivi had renewed the treaty between Russia and Germany the Germans and Russians would not have killed eachother and they would possibly have won the Great War. This loss and having to pay $33 billion for the Allies started another disagreement. This also started a foundation to hate the other European countries and World War II was started later