1 HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY

1 HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY

WORLD WAR ONE STARTED ON JUNE 28 1914

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_mBJgsaxlY

Although a resurgence of imperialism was an underlying cause, the immediate trigger for war was the 28 June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo now the Capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This set off a diplomatic crisis when Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, and international alliances formed over the previous decades were invoked. Within weeks, the major powers were at war and the conflict soon spread around the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lW-OxoRuOg

On 28 July, the Austro-Hungarians fired the first shots in preparation for the invasion of Serbia. As Russia mobilised, Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg before moving towards France, leading Britain (and Commonwealth Nations) to declare war on Germany. After the German march on Paris was halted, what became known as the Western Front settled into a battle of attrition, with a trench line that would change little until the year 1917. Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front, the Russian army was successful against the Austro-Hungarians, but was stopped in its invasion of East Prussia by the Germans. In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the war, opening fronts in the Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia), Mesopotamia (the area including the countries, in and around modern-day Iraq) and the Sinai/Palestine (Egypt/Israel). The Ottoman Empire are also responsible during this war for the deaths of 1,000.000 Armenians.

Italy and Bulgaria went to war in 1915, Romania in 1916, and the United States in 1917.

All the Countries involved in WW1 by Continents: 

AFRICA:

Algeria
Angola
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Basutoland
Bechuanaland
Belgian Congo
British East Africa (Kenya)
British Gold Coast

British Somaliland
Cameroon
Cabinda
Egypt
Eritrea
French Equatorial Africa
Gabon
Middle Congo
Ubangi-Shari
French Somaliland
French West Africa
Guinea
Ivory Coast

Kingdom of Dahomey
Mauretania
Senegal
Upper Senegal and Niger
Gambia
German East Africa
Italian Somaliland
Liberia
Madagascar
Morocco
Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique)
Nigeria
Northern Rhodesia
Nyasaland
Sierra Leone
South Africa
South West Africa (Namibia)
Southern Rhodesia
Togoland
Tripoli
Tunisia
Uganda and Zanzibar

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA:
Brazil
Canada
Costa Rica
Cuba
Falkland Islands
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Guadeloupe
Newfoundland
Nicaragua
Panama
Philippines
U.S.A
West Indies
Bahamas
Barbados
British Guiana
British Honduras
French Guiana
Grenada
Jamaica
Leeward Islands
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Trinidad and Tobago

ASIA:
Aden
Arabia

Armenia
Bahrein
El Qatar
Kuwait
Trucial Oman
Borneo
Ceylon
China
India
Japan
Persia (Iran)
Russia
Siam
Singapore
Transcaucasia
Turkey

AUSTRALASIA AND PACIFIC ISLANDS:
Antipodes
Auckland
Austral Islands
Australia
Bismarck Archipelago
Bounty
Campbell
Carolina Islands
Chatham Islands
Christmas
Cook Islands
Ducie
Ellice Islands
Fanning
Flint
Fiji Islands
Gilbert Islands
Kermadec Islands
Macquarie
Malden
Mariana Islands
Marquesas Islands
Marshal Islands
New Guinea
New Caledonia
New Hebrides
New Zealand
Norfolk
Palau Islands
Palmyra
Paumoto Islands
Pitcairn
Phoenix Islands
Samoa Islands
Solomon Islands
Tokelau Islands
Tonga

EUROPE:
Albania
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Estonia
Finland
France
Great Britain
Germany
Greece
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Montenegro
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
Turkey

ATALANTIC ISLANDS:
Ascension
Sandwich Islands
South Georgia
St. Helena
Tristan da Cunha

INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS:
Andaman Islands
Cocos Islands
Mauritius
Nicobar Islands
Reunion
Seychelles

THE COST IN LIVES:

Killed Total = 8,528,831

Wounded Total = 21,189,154

Total Prisoners and Missing in Action = 7,750,919

Total Approximant World War One Casualties = 37,466,904

Canada’s Cost in World War I 1914 - 1918:
628,736 Canadians served.
66,573 died and 138,166 were wounded.
2,818 were taken prisoner of war.
175 merchant seamen died by enemy action.

Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force 1918 – 1919:

A Canadian military force sent to Vladivostok, Russia during the Russian Revolution to bolster the allied presence. Composed of 4,192 soldiers and authorized in August 1918, the force returned to Canada between April and June 1919. Canada also left behind, 14 Canadians who were killed in action.

Canadian WW1 Field Punishment:

During the First World War, members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force were subject to British military discipline, which allowed execution by firing squad for crimes such as desertion or cowardice. During the war, 25 Canadian soldiers were executed for purely military offences. While excluding the two Canadian Soldiers who were found guilty of non-military ordered murders in my opinion in an area where millions murdered millions?

Veteran Affairs Minister Ron Duhamel announced finally that on December 11, 2001 that these executed soldiers would have their names added to Canada's Books of Remembrance housed in Parliament Hill.

WAR

War is really a vast open air factory where the hours are long, unions not permitted

and safety conditions routinely flouted!
No more people died on this planet then would have died if they were not killed in a war.

Only their descendants were eliminated, along with all of their shared future possibilities...

REMEMBER: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it! Posted by Richard… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RsKhOk7NxI