Who Started World War I: Crash Course World History 210
In which John Green teaches you WHY World War I started. Or tries to anyway. With this kind of thing, it's kind of hard to assign blame to any one of the nations involved. Did the fault lie...
========== Hi, I'm John Green, this is Crash Course World
History, and today we continue our discussion of how a regional conflict became World War
I. We're also going to look at who started the war and although no one nation is truly
to blame, some nations are more to blame than others. Like America, for once? Blameless. Well, not
totally blameless. Largely blameless. Mr. Green, Mr. Green! That's easy, the Germans
started the war. Well, Me from the Past, as it happens many
historians and British politicians would agree with you. I mean, you have an opinion that can be
defended. And I can't wait for you to defend it. Uhh... maybe they just, like, really liked war? I'm
not really in the defending positions business, Mr. Green, I'm more in the like...