Last Blog/WWI

       I heard my grandparents always speak of their brothers and cousins who died in WWI.  My Mother’s family are Yugoslavian and lived in Austria during WWI, in which my great uncle and other family members were killed. They came to America shortly after WWI, like other immigrants with papers. My father’s mother came to America from Lucca Italy in 1920. I remember her speaking of her brother being killed in WWI, and how much she missed him and what a trouble war it was. I feel so sad that my family and so many others had to go through this horror. 

       This chapter focuses on WWI and I felt it was something that touched my family with pain and sadness.  Now some history, before WWI countries began to build alliances stating that if your country is being attacked I will back you with my country. This was because other countries were fighting for resources they wanted and needed. Then Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia got involved to defend Serbia. Germany seeing Russia mobilizing, declared war on Russia. France was then drawn in against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Germany attacked France through Belgium pulling Britain into war. Then Japan entered the war. Later, Italy and the United States would enter on the side of the allies.   

      WWI was worst war it began in 1914. It evolved because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a lasted four years ending in 1918.   The war encompassed all continents except Antarctica. New terrorist group call the Black hand, because Bosnia wanted independents from the rule of Austria-Hungary.  WWI military technologies such as trenches, airplanes, chemical war fair all played a part in the war. More than 16 million people, soldiers and civilians alike died.