Going further back, had not the French gotten into a snit over a letter perpetrated by Bismark the Franco-Prussian War would not have happened, Germany might have remained related but non-united princedoms and it would have been Austria’s problem to work out with Serbia.Playing ‘What-if?’ with history can be an interesting pursuit.On a personal note, had the war not broken out when it did, my father and most of his family would have returned to the US so that he could grow up here instead of the Kaiser’s piece of Poland.
Going further back, had not the French gotten into a snit over a letter perpetrated by Bismark the Franco-Prussian War would not have happened, Germany might have remained related but non-united princedoms and it would have been Austria’s problem to work out with Serbia.Playing ‘What-if?’ with history can be an interesting pursuit.On a personal note, had the war not broken out when it did, my father and most of his family would have returned to the US so that he could grow up here instead of the Kaiser’s piece of Poland.