How did World War one affect your countries national character?
>>61556733
>that black guy
WE
:^(
>>61556780
Fuck off Russian racist bastard
>>61557023
t. Dice programmer
>>61556733
Trauma, trauma and also trauma with additional trauma.
>>61556733
Became a true great power and influential in world affairs.
>>61557115
same
Got our independace after 800 years of foreign ocupation and then liberated (annexed) Latvia from foreign forces.
The sun's shining down on these green fields of France; The summer wind blows, makes the red poppies dance. The trenches have vanished long under the plow; No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now. But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man's blind indifference to his fellow man. And a whole generation who were butchered and damned.
>>61557779
The zone in France is the proof of that.
https://imgur.com/gallery/CdxZM
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllo reddit
Made us like Germans less.
People were happy that not many died.
the somme and gallipoli gave canada and the anzacs their national identity
>>61556733
>1914
>Romania small, Romania weak
>1919
>We big naw, we weak. Better invade Hungary and be bigger.
We ended up shipping tons of soldiers to go die in some Europe wide chimpout. Worst decision.
25% of the population was killed and for the following 50 years we became a gommie colony
>>61558700
You're stupid. You boded your time, made boatloads of cash selling weps to UK and France and then joined at the last second so you could slap germany on the butt and get a VIP spot at the winner's table
>>61558780
ww1 you mongoloid, poland came out of ww1 hueg
>>61558780
Wasn't that WW2?
>>61558840
>>61558840
oh right
sorry whenever I see the world "war" I instantly think of muh nazis
>>61556733
Nice cosplay
It didn't. Although it did hurt our economy.
>>61556733
Tom Brokaw can tell you all about it for 3 easy payments of $14.99
It destroyed Habsburg Monarchy and ushered in an era of nation states in this part of Europe. Czechoslovakia in our case.
My great grandfather was an officer on the Italian front. That's all I know.
>Newfoundland
30% of Newfoundland's male population was killed in the war
In one battle (Beaumont Hamel) only 695 of the 783 men in that battle were either wounded or killed.
Due to this France gave Newfoundland the land in which the battle took place, and is currently the largest piece of preserved battleground from ww1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knxR-Q2VoBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA730QtjOBE
Always chokes me up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f95idVQEXI
>>61556733
Both happy because krautscum got btfo
But also sad because italy was a disaster after the war (well, even befor 2bh) and caporetto was our worst defeat ever
it didn't.
>>61557115
This and an explosion of radicalisms and futuristic ideas as the old order was torn down, both in thought, art and film.
Also first american influences, albeit with a strong german tint which made weimar culture probably quiete unique.
>>61557115
Wasn't the French army so pissed at one point they almost rebelled (understandably it was after a terrible fight)
It didn't, but it did make our politicians think that if they just didn't provoke Germany, they could stay out of all trouble like in WWI, which lead to the immediate surrender in WWII.
>>61556780
wuz actually soldiers n shiet?
>>61559474
christ that's depressing
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.
>>61560728
If you really wanna feel down watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48
The few times I watch it I always tear up at 7.35
>Using questionnaires filled out by doughboys as they left the Army, Gutièrrez reports that they were not cynical or disillusioned. They fought "for honor, manhood, comrades, and adventure, but especially for duty."
WW1 was basically just for giggles.
>>61561489
I've never been to war but I would imagine the experience would be something like this
>>61561884
Funny enough that's actually a light hearted look at WW1.
postin postwar art.
>>61556733
:'(
>>61561884
You should watch: All quiet on the western front
..
England did most the fighting.
Australia and maybe Canada and some blacks from carabiean in think helped a lot.
We made trenches also known as German reservation zones were they were hunted.
America came in to "save the day" half way through the war just like on WW2.
Thats my drunk remember.
>>61557376
I feel u senpai
So can it be agreed that WW1 was the worst war in human history to be a soldier?
While WW2 was the worst to be a civilian?
It didn't because we were neutral lmao
>>61562266
30 Year war was absolutely horrid for being a civilian and might compete.
The South African Regiment got mauled pretty badly at Delville Wood on the Western Front but we took control of modern day Namibia and kept it for decades afterwards.
>>61561233
God-tier poem.
>>61562266
>was the worst war in human history to be a soldier?
No these were https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman–Persian_Wars
>One has the impression that the blood spilled in the warfare between the two states brought as little real gain to one side or the other as the few meters of land gained at terrible cost in the trench warfare of the First World War.
we became a globalist shithole run by the military industrial complex
The war pretty much triggered modern art.
>>61557779
I cried to that song once. Felt good.
>>61562477
Actually the later part was more WWII, which was the result of the first part kind of.
>>61562633
gay
>>61556733
>all those non-europeans
WE WUZ EUROEPEANS N SHIEET
>>61561489
God, the feels.....
Also new ways to arrangepoems.
Aus allen Winkeln gellen Fürchte Wollen
From all angels shrilling horrid clouds
Kreisch
scream
Peitscht
whipped
Das Leben
The life
Vor
infront
Sich
of it
Her
forward
Den keuchen Tod
The wheezing death
Die Himmel fetzen.
The skys rags
Blinde schlächtert wildum das Entsetzen.
Blind, butchers all around the horror.
>>61562633
haha gayyyy
>>61562082
you fucking wat twat
>>61562683
>>61562761
:'''( you guys are jerks
>>61562400
FOR YOU :^)
>>61560432
They went on strike, 68 out of the 110 divisions of french army and many innocent soldiers were executed "for example".
The Germans didnt want to stop the war anyway.
It gave birth to quite a few songs and is one of the first symptoms of the post war pacifism and anti militarism
>>61562834
Delete
>>61562266
Another competitor for worst civilian experience could be the Second Anglo-Boer war. The British placed the vast majority of the civilian population (basically only women, children, and old men, as almost every man of fighting age was out with a gun) into concentration camps which were atrociously managed. Lots of disease and starvation.
Fucking captcha
>>61563245
What? we dindunufffin
>>61562741
>Lithuania
>not knowing about the Indian raj and other ethnics
Typical desu.
>>61556733
Well the World Wars are essentially what made us into the global superpower we are today. So I guess you could say it indirectly helped give us our smug sense of superiority.
Also I like how many Europeans apparently think an actual picture with black soldiers is somehow WE WUZ. Yes, Euros, black people didn't exist until the 70s when they magically appeared out of the ether and started appearing in blaxploitation movies and making hip-hop.
>>61563353
>This perfectly crafted bait.
>>61563353
It was only the Russian who made that comment. Calm down
>>61562407
Oh and if any of you wanna check out one of the most relevant South Africans ever, go on wikipedia and find Jan Smuts
>He was the only man to sign both of the peace treaties ending the First and Second World Wars.
>>61556733
>Germany: completely fuck ass mad
>France: so scarred that they disintegrated into warfearing pussies
>Britain: bled out and planted seeds for the empire's disintegration
>Austria: irrelevant
>Russia: fucking gommies
>USA: stronk new kid on the block but still kind of a shutin
>>61563245
That's leaving out a bit of the truth. As soon as the Boers started losing the 2nd war they went full-on war criminal by today's standards. The treatment if Boers by the Commonwealth was reactionary, caused by that.
>>61563915
>he believes in genocides
>>61563866
This tbqh
>>61563915
Examples of war criminality from the Boers? They waged a guerilla war yes, and I'm pretty certain they would not have been much for taking prisoners, but it's not like they needed to extort supplies from civilians. On the other hand the British depopulated two countries.
>>61562741
>>61563352
>colonial troops are allowed to go roaming the train station
>colonial troops are allowed to mingle with regular troops
>colonial troops not being subjected to a harsh treatment in ww1, except french colonials
This re-writing of history aint serving anyone any good. The blacks and arabs werent given equal treatment. Regular british troops refused to serve side by side with colonials. The british high command wanted to integrate their colonial troops, but were refused for fear of regular troop riots and disobedience. Only the french military had most proper treatment of other than whites.
>>61562400
>le Swedish drink meme
Landsknecht dindu nuffin
>>61556733
That one slav
>>61562834
Haha we sure showed them Frenchie! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
In contrast to all the other euro countries WWI was seen as the on of the last normal wars. A war where soldiers fought and died like in the old days no silly ideologies that turned professional armies on unarmed civilians. Sad thing is our country was divided and often Poles had to kill other Poles just because they were born on the other side. Though I know Hungarian/Austrian commanders almost never sent Polish troops in if they knew they would face Poles.
>>61564893
>WE
>>61556733
Do you really want to know? First World War destroyed the Russian Empire, the civil war has created the Soviet Union.
>>61564660
The camps starved and died from lack of disease because Boer guerrillas stole the food, or disabled railway supply lines, or attacked overland relief convoys.
And there's a big difference between "guerrilla warfare" for your independence and the attempted murder of every non-Boer or Adrican you can find.
Americans waged a guerrilla war, but still followed rules of common engagement, like treatment of prisoners or the illegal targeting if enemy officers on land. Boers were attempting to exterminate anything in red from overseas indiscriminately. They also put weapons in the hands of women and younger teens, that forced Britain's hand t.bh
>>61556733
It really didn't.
The civil war we were having at the time however did, it gave us (the base for) our current constitution.
>>61564813
Landsknechte pillages the native ones.
I did not implie that only foreign troops did shit, german mercenarys even fought for the swedes and any army which could give them an income in general during the end of the war, because the alternative would have been to starve or die of illness.
The peasants were terrorized by foreigners and native soldiers, other peasants whose crops were burned and plagues. It could happen that Landsknechte raped and pillaged for the luls, it could happen that civilians ambushed soldiers and killed them out of revenge or because they needed their stuff.
It was like Mad Max-medieval edition.
>>61556733
Well, people say that America gave us US citizenship so that they could throw us into the war first. I'm kinda thankful that they did.
>>61565613
You want Mad Max from the 30-year war? Meet the Lisowczycy(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisowczycy) also called the Raider of the Apocalypse/Lost Men. They went beyond the call of duty and killed and burned everything. They were so bad kings wrote letters begging to recall them.
>>61556733
We got super nationalistic during the war, but almost immediately after the war was over we really stopped giving a shit about what was happening in Europe and decided to focus on ourselves.
We recieved quite a few immigrants.
>>61565400
Is this bait? You're saying that there's a difference between killing enemy soldiers and... killing enemy soldiers? I mean, anyone in a British military uniform is a pretty valid target when you're fighting a war against Britain, and it's kind of odd to call someone out on "ungentlemanly conduct" when you've declared their right to exist null and void over what was, essentially, a minor immigration issue. In other words, attacking without just cause. And it's not like they were creeping into camps at night and stabbing officers in their sleep. I'm really not trying to have an argument here but it's a bit of a stretch to say that the boers were the bad guys here. Especially to call it their fault that the women and children were starving after the British burnt half the farms and then put them in concentration camps. And by no means were the British trying their best when it came to the camps. Read an article or a book on them sometime. 26 000 boer women and children died there, as well as literally uncounted numbers of black natives. Just look up the Fawcett commission for details of the conditions and try to say that the British were not horrifically at fault. True, it was necessary to win the war, but that makes it no less of a crime, nor any more justified than the war itself.
we went as British subjects
we lost something like quarter of the population
we came home as New Zealanders
>>61563866
>>61564658
Retards
>>61566844
Le butthurt detected.
1940 lel
>>61566863
go join your family at the pool. they dont like the fact that you spend your vacations mobileposting in the hotel room
>>61556733
people ended traumatized, gloomy, angry, nihilist and pacifist.
It really fucked everything upside down
>>61567022
In England is often thought of as when we started to lose religion, church attended fell greatly after the war.
First traumatized by war. Then traumatized by the course of nation take. I don't think anything this big of a change happened to this people before.
i dont want to talk about it
>>61556780
There were blacks from the colonies fighting on the British side though
>>61563866
>>61564658
Out, samefag
>>61556780
The French and British used plenty of colonial troops. It meant more bodies and it was the main advantage they had over the Germans.
>>61566983
I'm actually shitposting at work instead of doing my job desu.
>>61567337
>"plenty"
plz sweden.
It was less than 5% of the troups, in the big scheme of thing it's irrelevant.
>>61567337
The over whelming vast majority of colonial troops Britain used in both world wars were white anglos not coloureds
>>61567770
France alone used nearly half a million African colonial troops. I'd say that qualifies as "plenty".
We snuffed out the German culture here
It's a bit depressing, I think it helped turn the US so culture-less, indistinct, and soulless in the long run the desu
>>61556733
Thought we were too small an insignificant to be dragged into a war.
That lasted until ww2.
>>61568117
>>61567970
You used over a million Indian troops in WWI, mostly against the Ottomans. They may have had a lot of white anglo officers, but the men on the ground were Indian.
>>61556780
If the new battlefield game taught me anything it's that blacks served in WW1. Only around 5 of them, but still.
Donuts.
So you could say WWI increased our cholesterol levels
>>61567114
Are we okay today turkbro?
>>61556733
We made a new type of cheap sausage called "Unity Sausage" and were rolling in dough from selling cocaine to both sides. Also we feverishly put up our undergunned and outdated military at our borders and flooded some heartlands to keep ze germans from coming in and taking our shit.
>>61571465
all the while producing germany's airforce. but you know, free trade and all that...
>>61567146
All so that they can taste some semblance of equality to fellow European UK subjects only to lose that at the end of the war and resume cucked status.
>>61556733
It pissed us off because you put Home Rule on the back burner when the war started.
>>61556733
Nowadays people don't realize how Germanic the mid-western US was prior to WWI. There were many areas where German was the primary language for most people. Because of discrimination against German-Americans due to German atrocities hyped by the pro British US press (no, they weren't as bad as the propaganda portrayed it to be, but the Germans didn't do themselves any favors with what they did do), that culture was mostly suppressed and eventually almost forgotten.
>>61572124
good
fuck Germans
>>61572124
Honestly that makes me curious how the world wars changed the perception of German heritage in my home state (not midwestern) where there's a huge German cultural influence, especially in suburban and rural areas. I'll have to look into that
Eliminated an entire generation of skilled working men,
As my great grandfather, talented 33 yo woodworker (my parents still have some beautifully carved furniture made by him) thrown in the fucking trenches to die in 1916
He wasn't the exception.
This war actually destroyed the quality of our craft.
All of this hard gained knowledge transmitted from generation to generation for centuries suddenly put to a stop.
No wonder we went to shit after that,
we had really good craftmanship before that.
>>61572124
Good
Fuck Germans
>>61572725
>>61572266
I still dont understand why these guys were so agressive.
Not to mention they had won the war against us in 1870
still they wanted more.
shit is weird yo
>>61556733
It made us both confident and angry; confident that we finally figured out how to power projection, angry that nobody recognized we did a thing in WWI.
>>61574655
Wait, you guys were in the war?
It's where the Marines got their nickname devil dogs. It obviously didn't really impact out character a ton. It did end isolationism. I honestly think the US should have never got involved. A stalemate may have been a better outcome considering the next few decades.
>>61556733
It didn't.
my great grandpa fought in the serbian army
serbs had it pretty rough, they lost a huge fraction of their population
>crush the numerically and materially superior at cer, kolubara
>get rekt by diseases
>get penetrated from other end by bulgaria
>retreat through albania (saved from total destruction by based montenegro holding them off long enough)
>harassed by albanian presents, starve en masse
>both occupying armies savagely kill civilians, as documented by archibald reiss
>get more diseases chilling in corfu then salonika
>start fighting again
>central powers surrender
It had the Battle of Ypres and Battle of Sommes which constitutes about 1/3 of Canadian identity the other 2/3 being hockey and A FUCKING LEAF
In the most retarded way possible.
gallipoli
fuck turks
>>61573610
Twas the age of jingoistic imperialism my friend and Germany was the up and coming super power
"It was Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific on parade. I thought then... that in those few minutes I witnessed the birth of a nation."
