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What do you think were the two most important lessons that were learned or maybe that SHOULD have been learned from World War I Why One lesson I think that we should learn from WWI is that peacetime alliances can turn small scale conflicts into a multi national crisis While tensions throughout Europe were running high in the end it was Austria Hungary s declaration of war against Serbia that officially started the violence After the assassination of Franz Ferdinand Austria Hungary was ready to go to war with Serbia knowing with the security of knowing they had Germany s support due to the Triple Alliance However after Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia Russia came to Serbia s aid propelling a war between Germany and Austria Hungary against Russia Russia was not alone in this conflict due to the pre war agreements of the Triple Entente and so France and Britain became involved in the fighting Due to these peacetime agreements and treaties what should have been a short lived conflict between Serbia and Austria Hungary blossomed into total war The second important lesson that should have been learned from WWI is countries only go to war to benefit themselves and alliances can breed hatred as well as unity While the escalation of WWI was built on the relationships created by treaties and alliances the countries only got involved after seeing how it would benefit them
