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[quote user="TimChgo9"]But that didn't happen.  You cannot discount the events of the early part of the century before World War II.  Discounting them, or ignoring them then leaves holes in the "No WWII" theories.  World War I grew out of the arms race, and the seething  tension between Germany and France over France's humiliation in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.  The Continental Arms Race was in full swing starting about 1898, with the passage of the Navy Bills in the German Reichstag.  Germany was bent on designing and building a navy that could challenge the British on the open sea. Lenin called Europe "A powder keg" in 1902, and all it needed was a spark.  That spark came in 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Joseph of the Austro Hungarian empire. [/quote] Quite correct, and to go even further, the flashpoint for WWI actually came from the Turkish conquest of the Balkans.  The assassin of the Archduke, some bonehead named Princip as I recall (a Bosnian Serb), had grown-up with tales of daring-do of his ancestors fighting a guerilla war against the Turks.  He and his unemployed cohorts had no Muslim Turks left to fight, so the next best thing were the Catholic Austrians, and it all hit the fan from there.And just to tie my comments back to railroading, I believe the Archduke and his wife both travelled to Sarajevo by train. [;)]
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