I have learnt a lot of things this week including M.A.I.N (Militarisation, Allies, Imperialism, Nationalism). Those were the four things that caused World War I, but when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria got killed that triggered World War I. We learnt about how countries were called empires back then and they would make alliances with each other. There were two main alliances called The Triple Entente and The Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente were Great Britain, France and Russia. The Triple Alliance was Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. Every soldier got PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) because of the horrible things they saw during the war. I forgot what it was called but there was something else that got into your body and you couldn’t get it out and it would kill you over time even after the war. The winning side would bury their soldiers in rows with white crosses with their names on them. While the losing side would dump their soldiers in mass piles and put one memorial that if you had your name on it, you were lucky. This has been going well so far, I’ve learnt a lot of things about World War I.
