Why Did Great Britain Join World War I?

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The “Great” in Great Britain was deleted since WWI

As time has passed, wars have been fought and this has brought many consequences around the world. The great powers have changed, economic depressions where confronted and so many other situations. In the 20th century, Great Britain was a land of peace, stability, prosperity and world dominance until 1914 where a time of wars began and it stopped being as great as their name says.

In 1914 a Serbian nationalist killed the Archduke from Austria-Hungary, Francis Ferdinand. This action made Austria declared war to Serbia and since Great Britain was allied with Serbia they join the war. Since that day, Great Britain stopped being a land of prosperity, stability and peace. It was a land full of …show more content…

Germany, Italy and Russia took advantage of the chaos in U.S and Britain and got prepared for a second war that made Britain a worst country were disaster and tragedy took place.

The situation got worst, while they were trying to reestablish the country a second world war started and they were not even close to be great again. Germany invaded Poland and countries started to join the war because they were allied. Things were not getting better; catastrophe is the world that could describe Britain in those days. Germany bombed London and they fought against Nazis a whole year by themselves. A year later in 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor which made the U.S. get into war.

This seemed as if the war was never going to end. Germans where terribly powerful but this tragedy ended four years latter when Britain and it’s allies won the war. It was until many years later that Britain got their “grate” back; they could call themselves again “The Grate Britain” because it is now a land of peace, prosperity and tranquility once again. They got power again even though they dissolved into commonwealth independent nations. It was not until the Modern World when they reestablish their relationship with Europe. They entered the European Economic Community and the European Union. In 1994, they opened a railway tunnel from Britain to France (the English Channel). It took more than 20 years to get back