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A Chain of Friend-Ship

This political cartoon from 1914 depicts the system of alliances that drew European countries into World War I. It shows how countries were bound by treaties to defend their allies, which made it difficult to remain neutral. The cartoon portrays the countries as men threatening each other in a chain, representing how attacking one country risked starting a wider war. While it effectively conveys how the alliances escalated the conflict, it oversimplifies some details, such as portraying France and Britain as coming to Germany's aid when they actually entered the war in defense of other allies.

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A Chain of Friend-Ship

This political cartoon from 1914 depicts the system of alliances that drew European countries into World War I. It shows how countries were bound by treaties to defend their allies, which made it difficult to remain neutral. The cartoon portrays the countries as men threatening each other in a chain, representing how attacking one country risked starting a wider war. While it effectively conveys how the alliances escalated the conflict, it oversimplifies some details, such as portraying France and Britain as coming to Germany's aid when they actually entered the war in defense of other allies.

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A Chain of friend-ship

This political cartoon clearly portrays the alliance system during the First World War, as it
clearly shows how powerful European countries created two main alliances (The triple
alliance, and the triple entente), and stopped other countries from battling their allies,
which made it difficult to create peace during that certain time ,  comic depicting the
alliances of WWI. It was once published in the American newspaper the Brooklyn Eagle in
July 1914., The alliances that have been made to supposed to help every other was
once what rapidly escalated a fight for independence into the cause of a essential war. For
example, Germany and Austria shaped many alliances, normally stored secret,
with international locations who had been now not allied with each other ,as we can see the
source above the first man is threating the guy behind him , as each one of these men
represents a country according to their clothes , As this goes on as it evident , through out
the
OPVL
Origin A Chain of Friendship' - appeared in the American newspaper the Brooklyn
Eagle in July 1914. Primary source.
Purpose It pretends to make evident how the european countries got involved in war
according to the system of alliances they established since 1873 to 1914
Value The source is valuable because it is a primary source and provides an
approach to people's points of view during those times. It shows the
sequence of events that followed the outbreak of the war and is likely to
appeal to people in a humerus way.
Limitations Despite having values , this source also has limitations as it is clear from the
men on what country they are representing according to their clothes ,
France and Britain are shown as to be attacking Germany according the
representation of each man when in reality, France entered the war for
Germany’s declaration , in addition to that , Britain entered the war to
defend Belgium, not the Russians where as we can see in the source , Britain
are defending the Russians .
caption on top of the countries represented by each man “if you touch me ill - , if you make
a move ill- , if you hit that little feller ill - , if you strike my friend ill - , if you hit him - , ho
there if you chaps-.

Bibliography :
https://guernseydonkey.com/the-domino-effect-how-europe-fell-into-world-war-i/

https://twitter.com/ww1gameseries/status/1023620176971890688

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