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Old 12-20-2010, 04:03 PM   #51 (permalink)
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What I find 'interesting' about WWI (if I can indulge myself in using this term) is the politics of great powers that led to it and the shaping of modern Europe after it. I mean, it started because of the clashing imperialistic interests of great empires which, ironically, led to their crash by the time the war was over.
It was definitely the beginning of the end for the British empire.
The second world war just about broke us. I think we only finished paying off the lend/lease debt to the U.S and Canada in 2006!

Before WW1 Britain was the most powerful nation on earth. By the end of WW2 the U.S. took that dubious honour.
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