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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
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The Great War was the first major challenge as liberal democracies waged war against the traditional monarchy. LD in Europe survived... barely and the traditional monarchy was tossed on the scrap heap of history.
During this period other factors came into play as the industrial revolution took root and new structures arose to challenge it. Communists saw LD as a means of keeping the ruling elite in power at the expense of the working class while Fascism embraced state or racial unity in a global struggle for supremacy. Another fight broke out and the Communists and LD's combined to defeat the Fascists.
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What LD's? I assume you are referring to liberal democracies by the term LD's. The initial participants were all monarchies, there were no liberal democracies. One of the major factors of WWI is
imperialism, the actual lynch pin. WWI had nothing to do with LD's fighting traditional monarchies. The fall of traditional monarchies was an unintentional consequence of the war.
You need to stop reading revisionist history books.
