All so we must Remember that When Britain declared war on Germany on August 4th 1914, it was committing not only its own men, but those of its empire. The five “dominions” — Australia, Canada, Newfoundland (which joined with Canada in 1949), New Zealand and South Africa — were self-governing but had no power over foreign policy ... As the war dragged on and their young men died in droves, they pressed for more say in its conduct and, after it ended, more control over their destinies. The men who came home often found that fighting for Britain had, paradoxically, made them feel more distant from it...IT IS a common place in left-wing circles that wars are started to satisfy capitalist interests; arms manufacturers and the like. Thus the Socialist Party of Great Britain declared that What was responsible for these wars was the whole world system of capitalism with its competitive struggle for profits and its collection of competing armed states..economist/topics/first-world-war
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