The Three World Wars Fomented by the Illuminati

In 1784, “an act of God” placed the Bavarian government in possession of evidence which proved the existence of the continuing Luciferian Conspiracy.  Adam Weishaupt, a Jesuit-trained professor of canon law, defected from Christianity and embraced the Luciferian ideology while teaching in Ingoldstadt University.  In 1770, the money lenders, who had recently organized the House of Rothschild, retained him to revise and modernize the age-old ‘protocols’ designed to give the Synagogue of Satan ultimate world domination so they, by use of satanic despotism, can impose the Luciferian ideology upon what remains of the Human Race after the final social cataclysm. Weishaupt completed his task on May 1st, 1776.

The plan required the destruction of ALL existing governments and religions.  This objective was to be reached by dividing the masses, whom he termed Goyim (meaning human cattle), into opposing camps in ever increasing numbers on political, racial, social, economic and other issues.  The opposing sides were then to be armed and an ‘incident’ provided which would cause them to fight and weaken themselves as they destroyed National Governments and Religious Institutions.

In 1776, Weishaupt organized the Illuminati to put the plot into execution.  The word Illuminati is derived from Lucifer, and means ‘holders of the light’.  Using the lie that his objective was to bring about a one world government to enable men with proven mental ability to govern the world, he recruited about two thousand followers.  These included the most intelligent men in the field of Arts and Letters, education, the sciences, finance and industry.  He then established Lodges of the Grand Orient to be their secret headquarters.

Weishaupt’s revised plan required his Illuminati to do the following things to help them accomplish their purpose.

(1) Use monetary and sex bribery to obtain control of people already occupying positions in high places in the various levels of ALL governments and other fields of human endeavour.  Once an influential person had fallen for the lies, deceits, and temptations of the Illuminati they were to be held in bondage by application of political and other forms of blackmail and threats of financial ruin, public exposure, and physical harm and even death to themselves and their loved ones. 

(2) Illuminati on the faculties of colleges and universities were to recommend students possessing exceptional mental ability belonging to well-bred families with international leanings for special training in internationalism. This training was to be provided by granting scholarships to those selected.  They were to be educated (indoctrinated) into accepting the ‘Idea’ that only a One World Government can put an end to recurring wars and tribulations.  They were to be at first persuaded and then convinced that men of special ability and brains had the RIGHT to rule those less gifted, because the Goyim (masses of the people) don’t know what is best for them physically, mentally and spiritually.  Today three such special schools are located in Gordonstoun in Scotland;  Salem in Germany;  and Anavryta in Greece. 

(3) Influential people trapped into coming under the control of the Illuminati, and students who had been specially educated and trained, were to be used as agentur and placed behind the scenes of ALL governments as “Experts” and “Specialists” so they could advise the top executives to adopt policies which would, in the long run, serve the secret plans of the One Worlders and bring about the ultimate destruction of the governments and religions they were elected or appointed to serve.

(4) The Illuminati were to obtain control of the Press and all other agencies which distribute information to the public.  News and information was to be slanted so that the Goyim would come to believe that a One World Government is the ONLY solution to our many and varied problems.

Because Britain and France were the two greatest powers at the end of the 18th Century, Weishaupt ordered the Illuminati to foment the Colonial Wars to weaken the British Empire and organize the Great Revolution to weaken the French Empire.  The latter he scheduled should start in 1789.

A German author named Zwack put Weishaupt’s revised version of the age-old conspiracy into book form and named it “Einige Original-Scripten.”  In 1784 a copy of this document was sent to the Illuminists Weishaupt had delegated to foment the French revolution.  The courier was struck dead by lightning as he rode through Ratisbon on his way from Frankfurt to Paris.  The police found the subversive documents on his body and turned them over to the proper government authorities.

After careful study of the plot, the Bavarian Government ordered the police to raid Weishaupt’s newly organized lodges of the Grand Orient and the homes of some of his most influential associates, in cluding the castle of Baron Bassus-in-Sandersdorf.  Additional evidence thus obtained convinced the authorities the documents were a genuine copy of a conspiracy by which the synagogue of Satan, who controlled the Illuminati AT THE TOP, planned to use wars and revolutions to bring about the establishment of one kind or another of a One World Government, the powers of which they intended to usurp as soon as it was established.

In 1785, the Bavarian Government outlawed the Illuminati and closed the lodges of the Grand Orient.  In 1786, they published the details of the conspiracy.  The English title is “The Original Writtings of the Order and Sect of The Illuminati”.  Copies of the conspiracy were sent to the heads of church and state.  The power of the Illuminati was so great that this warning was ignored, as were the warnings Christ had given the world.

The Illuminati went underground.  Weishaupt instructed his Illuminists to infiltrate into the lodges of Blue Masonry and form a secret society within secret societies.

Only masons who proved themselves Internationalists, and those whose conduct proved they had defected from God, are initiated into the Illuminati.  Thus the conspirators used the cloak of philanthropy to hide their revolutionary and subversive activities.  In order to infiltrate into Masonic lodges in Britain, Illuminists invited John Robison over to Europe.  He was a high degree mason in the Scottish Rite: Professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University; and Secretary of The Royal Society of Edinburgh.  John Robison did not fall for the lie that the objective of the one worlders was to form a benevolent dictatorship.  He kept his reactions to himself however, and was entrusted with a copy of Weishaupt’s Revised Conspiracy for study and safe keeping.

Because the heads of church and state in France were advised to ignore the warnings given them, the revolution broke out in 1789.  In order to alert other governments to their danger, in 1798 John Robison published a book, entitled “Proof of a Conspiracy to Destroy All Governments and Religions.”  But his warnings have been ignored, as were the others.

Thomas Jefferson had become a student of Weishaupt’s.  He was one of his strongest defenders when he was outlawed by his government.  Jefferson infiltrated the Illuminati into the newly organized Lodges of The Scottish Rite in New England.  Realizing this information will shock many Americans, I wish to record the following facts:

In 1789, John Robison warned Masonic leaders the Illuminati had infiltrated into their lodges.

On July 19th, 1798, David Pappen, President of Harvard University, issued the same warning to the graduating class and lectured them on the influence illuminism was having on American politics and religion.

John Quincy Adams had organized the New England Masonic Lodges.  In 1800 he decided to oppose Jefferson for the presidency.  He wrote three letters to Colonel Wm. L. Stone exposing how Jefferson was using Masonic lodges for subversive purposes.  The information contained in these letters is credited with winning Adams the election.  The letters are in Rittenburg Square Library, in Philadelphia.

In 1829, the Illuminati held a meeting in New York which was addressed by a British Illuminist named Wright.  Those in attendance were informed that the Illuminati intended to unite the Nihilist and Atheist groups with all other subversive organizations into an international organization to be known as Communism.  This destructive force was to be used to enable the Illuminati to foment future wars and revolutions.  Clinton Roosevelt (a direct ancestor of F.D.R.) Horace Greeley, and Chas. Dana were appointed a committee to raise funds for this new venture.  The fund they raised financed Karl Marx and Engels when they wrote “Das Capital” and “The Communist Manifesto” in Soho, England.

In 1830, Weishaupt died.  He carried the deception that the Illuminati was dead to his own death-bed where, to convince his spiritual advisers, he pretended to repent and rejoin the Church.

According to Weishaupt’s revised version of the Age-Old conspiracy the Illuminati were to organize, finance, direct and control ALL international organizations and groups by working their agentur into executive positions AT THE TOP.  Thus it was that while Karl Marx was writing the Communist Manifesto under direction of one group of Illuminists, Professor Karl Ritter of Frankfurt University was writing the antithesis under direction of another group, so that those who direct the conspiracy AT THE TOP could use the differences in these two ideologies to start dividing larger and larger numbers of the Human Race into opposing camps so they could be armed and then made to fight and destroy each other, together with their political and religious institutions.  The work Ritter started was continued by the German so-called philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), who founded Nietzscheism.

Nietzscheism was developed into Fascism and later into Naziism and used to enable the agentur of the Illuminati to foment World Wars One and Two.

In 1834 the Italian revolutionary leader Gussepi Mazzini was selected by the Illuminati to be director of their revolutionary programme throughout the world.  He held this post until he died in 1872.

In 1840, General Albert Pike was brought under the influence of Mazzini because he became a disgruntled officer when President Jefferson Davis disbanded his auxiliary Indian troops on the grounds they had committed atrocities under the cloak of legitimate warfare.  Pike accepted the idea of a one world government and ultimately became head of the Luciferian Priesthood.  Between 1859, and 1871, he worked out the details of a military blue-print, for three world wars, and three major revolutions which he considered would further the conspiracy to its final stage during the twentieth century.

Most of his work was done in the 13 room mansion, he built in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1840.  When the Illuminati, and the lodges of the Grand Orient, became suspect, because of Mazzini’s revolutionary activities in Europe, Pike organized the New and Reformed Palladian Rite.  He established three supreme councils;  one in Charleston, S.C., another in Rome, Italy and another in Berlin, Germany.  He had Mazzini establish twenty three subordinate councils in strategic locations throughout the world.  These have been the secret headquarters of the world revolutionary movement ever since.  Long before Marconi invented wireless (Radio), the scientists who were of the Illuminati had made it possible for Pike and the Heads of his councils to communicate secretly.  It was the discovery of this secret that enabled intelligence officers to understand how apparently unrelated ‘incidents’ took place simultaneously throughout the world which aggravated a situation and developed into a war or revolution.

Pike’s plan was as simple as it has proved effective.  He required that Communism, Naziism, Political Zionism, and other International movements be organized and used to foment the three global wars and three major revolutions. 

The first world war was to be fought so as to enable the Illuminati to overthrow the powers of the Tzars in Russia and turn that country into the stronghold of Atheistic-Communism.  The differences stirred up by agentur of the Illuminati between the British and German Empires were to be used to foment this war.  After the war ended, Communism was to be built up and used to destroy other governments and weaken religions. 

World War Two, was to be fomented by using the differences between Fascists and Political Zionists.  This war was to be fought so that Naziism would be destroyed and the power of Political Zionism increased so that the sovereign state of Israel could be established in Palestine.  During world war two International Communism was to be built up until it equalled in strength that of united Christendom.  At this point it was to be contained and kept in check until required for the final social cataclysm.  Can any informed person deny Roosevelt and Churchill did not put this policy into effect ?

World War Three is to be fomented by using the differences the agentur of the Illuminati stir up between Political Zionists and the leaders of the Moslem world.  The war is to be directed in such a manner that Islam (the Arab World including Mohammedanism) and Political Zionism (including the State of Israel) will destroy themselves while at the same time the remaining nations, once more divided against each other on this issue, will be forced to fight themselves into a state of complete exhaustion physically, mentally, spiritually and economically.  Can any unbiased and reasoning person deny that the intrigue now going on in the Near, Middle, and Far East isn’t designed to accomplish this devilish purpose?

On August 15, 1871, Pike told Mazzini that after World War Three is ended, those who aspire to undisputed world domination will provoke the greatest social cataclysm the world has ever known.  We quote his own written words (taken from the letter catalogued in the British Museum Library, London, Eng.):

“We shall unleash the Nihilists and Atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil.  Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization; and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity — whose deistic spirits will be from that moment without compass (direction), anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration — will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out in the public view, a manifestation which will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.”

When Mazzini died in 1872, Pike made another Italian revolutionary leader, named Adriano Lemmi, his successor.  Lemmi was later succeeded by Lenin and Trotsky.  The revolutionary activities of all these men were financed by British, French, German, and American international bankers.  The reader must remember that the International Bankers of today, like the Money-Changers of Christ’s day, are only tools or agents of the Illuminati.

While the general public has been lead to believe that Communism is a movement of the workers (soviets) to destroy Capitalism, Pawns In The Game and The Red Fog Over America prove that both British and American Intelligence Officers obtained authentic documentary evidence which proved that internationalist capitalists operating through their international banking houses had financed both sides in every war and revolution fought since 1776.  Those who today comprise The Synagogue of Satan direct our governments, whom they hold in usury, to fight the wars and revolutions so they further Pike’s plans to bring the world to that stage of the conspiracy when Atheistic-Communism and the whole of Christendom can be forced into an all-out war within each remaining nation as well as on an international scale.

There is plenty of documentary evidence to prove that Pike, like Weishaupt, was head of the Luciferian Priesthood in his day.  In addition to the letter he wrote Mazzini in 1871, another he wrote to the heads of his Palladian Councils July 14th, 1889 fell into hands other than intended.  It was written to explain the Luciferian dogma, concerning worship of Satan and worship of Lucifer.  In it, he said in part:

“That which we say to the crowd is ‘we worship God’.  But it is the God that one worships without superstition.  The religion should be, by all us initiates of the high degrees, maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine ... Yes ! Lucifer is God.  And unfortunately Adonay (the name given by Luciferians to the God we worship) is God also ... for the absolute can only exist as two gods.  Thus, the doctrine of Satanism is a heresy:  and the true, and pure philosophical religion is the belief in Lucifer, the equal of Adonay:  but Lucifer, God of Light, and God of Good, is struggling for humanity against Adonay the God of Darkness and Evil.”

Propaganda put out by those who direct the Luciferian conspiracy has caused the general public to believe all who oppose Christianity are Atheists.  This is a deliberate lie circulated to hide the secret plans of the High Priests of the Luciferian Creed who direct the Synagogue of Satan so that the human race still find it impossible to establish on this earth God’s plan for the rule of the universe, as he explained it to our first parents in the Garden of Eden, told in Genesis.  The High Priests of the Luciferian Creed work from the darkness.  They remain behind the scenes.  They keep their identify and true purpose secret, even from the vast majority of those they deceive into doing their will and furthering their secret plans and ambitions.  They know that the final success of their conspiracy to usurp the powers of world government depends upon their ability to keep their identity and TRUE purpose secret until no cunning or power can prevent them crowning THEIR leader King-despot of the entire world.  The Holy Scriptures predicted what Weishaupt and Pike planned would be put into effect until the Spiritual forces of evil controlled this earth. 

Research dug up letters from Mazzini which revealed how the High Priests of the Luciferian Creed keep their identity and true purpose secret.  In a letter Mazzini wrote to his revolutionary associate, Dr. Breidenstine, only a few years before he died he said, “We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe.  We wish to break every yoke.  Yet, there is one unseen that can be hardly felt, yet it weighs on us.  Whence comes it ?  Where is it ?  No one knows ... or at least no one tells.  This association is secret even to us the veterans of secret societies.”

In 1925 his Eminence Cardinal Caro y Rodriguez, Archbishop of Santiago, Chile, published a book “The Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled”, to expose how the Illuminati, the Satanists, and the Luciferians had imposed a secret society upon a secret society.  He produces a great deal of documentary evidence to prove that not even 32nd and 33rd degree Masons know what goes on in the Lodges of the Grand Orient and Pike’s New and Reformed Palladian Rite and the affiliated Lodges of Adoption in which female members of the conspiracy are initiated.  On page 108 he quotes the authority Margiotta to prove that before Pike selected Lemmi to succeed Mazzini as Director of the World Revolutionary Movement, Lemmi was a rabid and confirmed Satanist.  But after he had been selected he was initiated into the Luciferian ideology.

The fact that the High Priests of the Luciferian Creed on this earth introduced the worship of Satan in the lower degrees of both Grand Orient Lodges and the councils of the Palladian Rite and then initiated selected individuals to the FULL SECRET that Lucifer is God the equal of Adonay, has puzzled many historians and research workers.  The Holy Scriptures mention Lucifer only a few times — Isa. 14; Luke 10:18;  Rev. 9:1-11.  The Luciferian Doctrine however states definitely that Lucifer led the Heavenly revolt;  that Satan is the oldest son of God (Adonay) and the brother of St. Michael who defeated the Luciferian conspiracy in Heaven.  The Luciferian teachings also claim that St. Michael came on earth in the person of Jesus Christ to try to repeat what he had done in Heaven ... and failed.  Because Lucifer, Satan, the Devil — call him what you may — is the father of lies, it would appear that those spiritual forces of darkness deceive as many as possible so-called intellectuals into doing their will here as they did in heaven.

Without getting into controversy it should be easy for the average Christian to realize that there are TWO supernatural powers.  One we refer to as God to whom the Scriptures give many names;  and the other, the Devil, who also seems to have many names.  The important thing to remember is that according to Revelations there is to be a final judgement.  Satan will break or be released from the bonds with which he is bound for a thousand years.  He will again create chaos on this earth.  Then Christ will intervene on behalf of the elect and God will divide the Sheep from the Goats. 

Once a person reads Pawns In The Game and The Red Fog Over America it will be easy to realize that the struggle going on is NOT of a worldly or temporal nature.  It originated in that part of the universe we designate “The Celestial World”;  its purpose is to win the souls of men away from God Almighty.

Learned theologians have stated that Lucifer, Satan, or call the head of the Forces of Evil simply “The Devil”, knows he did wrong and knows that he was wrong.  He is a pure spirit and therefore indestructible.  Knowing he is wrong he still is determined to drag as many souls as possible into hell with him to share his misery.  This being a fact our duty is clear:  We have to make known the TRUTH in this regard to as many others as quickly as possible so they can avoid the snares and pit-falls set by those who serve the devil’s purpose and penetrate the lies and deceits of those who wander about the world seeking the ruin of souls.  Wars and revolutions give the devil his greatest harvests of human souls, because “so many are called and so few are chosen” Matt. 20; 16; 22: 14.  We so often hear what is going on in the world today referred to as “A war for the minds of men”.  That is only a half truth and is worse than a whole lie.  Weishaupt’s plot requires:

    1.  Abolition of ALL ordered national governments.
    2.  Abolition of inheritance.
    3.  Abolition of private property.
    4.  Abolition of patriotism.
    5.  Abolition of the individual home and family life as the cell from which all civilizations have stemmed.
    6.  Abolition of ALL religions established and existing so that the Luciferian ideology of totalitarianism may be imposed on mankind.

The headquarters of the conspiracy in the late 1700s was in Frankfurt, Germany, where the House of Rothschild had been established and linked together other international financiers who had literally “sold their souls to the devil”.  After the Bavarian Government’s exposure in 1786, the High Priests of the Luciferian Creed established their headquarters in Switzerland;  since World War Two the headquarters have been in the Harold Pratt Building New York.  The Rockefellers have replaced the Rothschilds as far as the manipulation of finances is concerned.

In the final phase of the conspiracy the government will consist of the king-despot, the Synagogue of Satan, and a few millionaires, economists, and scientists who have proved their devotion to the Luciferian cause.  All others are to be integrated into a vast conglomeration of mongrelized humanity, by artificial insemination practiced on an international scale.  On pages 49-51: “The impact of Science on Society” Bertrand Russell says that ultimately less than 30 percent of the female population and 5 percent of the male population will be used for breeding purposes.  Reproduction will be strictly limited to the type and numbers required to fill the needs of the state.

Because the rulings of the courts are so much in the public mind today, I will conclude my introduction by quoting from a lecture given to the members of the Grand Orient Lodge of Paris, France, by a top executive of Pike’s Palladian Rite, at the turn of the present century.  He said:

“Under our influence the execution of the laws of the Goyim has been reduced to a minimum.  The prestige of the law has been exploded by the liberal interpretations introduced into this sphere.  In the most important and fundamental affairs and questions judges decide as we dictate to them: see matters in the light where with we enfold them for the administration of the Goyim, of course through persons who are our tools though we do not appear to have anything in common with them.  Even Senators and the higher administration accept our council...”

This should explain the “Little Rock” incident, which took place a half century later.

Can any thinking person deny that the conspiracy as revised by Weishaupt in the latter 1700s, and the plans drawn up by Pike in the latter 1800s, haven’t matured exactly as intended ?  The empires of Russia and Germany have been destroyed.  Those of Britain and France reduced to third class powers.  The crowned heads have fallen like over-ripe fruit.  The world’s population has twice been divided into opposing camps as the result of propaganda put out by the Illuminati.  Two world wars have seen Christians kill each other off efficiently by the tens of millions without any person engaged having the slightest personal animosity towards the other.  Two of the major revolutions, those of Russia and China, are accomplished facts.  Communism has been built up until it is equal in strength to the whole of Christendom.  Intrigue now going on in the East and Middle East is fomenting World War Three.  After that, unless stopped right now by sheer weight of informed public opinion, will come the final social cataclysm;  then absolute physical, mental, and spiritual slavery will follow.

Can any informed person deny that Communism is being tolerated in the remaining so-called Free countries.  The British special branch of intelligence;  the Canadian R.C.M.P., and the U.S. F.B.I. could arrest every Communist leaders within twenty four hours of the order being given, but they are not allowed to act.  WHY ?  The answer is simple.  Communism is being ‘Contained’ on the national and international levels of government on the ‘ADVICE’ of the Illuminati’s agentur, who give a great many utterly unconvincing excuses for the present policy of Britain, Canada, and the United States towards national and international Communism.  If the F.B.I. or the R.C.M.P. act then the Judges of the Supreme Courts of both countries find reason in law why those arrested should be set free.  Such action would be utterly ridiculous if Communism wasn’t being contained for use in the final social cataclysm.

Is it not time Christians woke up to the realization of their danger ?  Is it not time parents refused to allow their children to be used as cannon fodder to serve the Luciferian cause ?  Is it not time we became “Doers” of the WORD of God instead of “Hearers” only ?

The Federation of Christian Laymen, of which I have the honor to be president, has made available all the knowledge obtained to date dealing with the various aspects of the conspiracy.  We have published Pawns In The Game and Red Fog Over America in book form, and other pamphlets.  We keep those who have read our books up to date concerning the progress of the conspiracy by publishing a monthly news letter, entitled News Behind The News.  Our predictions of forthcoming events are based on our knowledge of the continuing conspiracy.  They have come true to such an amazing extent that we have aroused the interest of thinking people throughout the world.  We invite you to join us.  Make yourselves fully acquainted with the various aspects of the conspiracy, then pass that knowledge on to others.  Do this and the power of informed public opinion will become the greatest power on earth.

I urge you to organize Christian Civic Leagues or similar groups.  Use them as study groups.  Use them to elect men who are loyal citizens.  But before you select a candidate for public office make sure he is fully informed regarding all aspects of the International Conspiracy on the municipal, state, and federal levels of government.  All one worlders won’t serve the Synagogue of Satan, knowingly.  It is our duty to make them acquainted with the truth.  Christian civic leagues should be non-partisan, and non-denominational.  Their purpose should be to put God back into politics so we may establish government in accordance with His Plan for the rule of the universe as explained to us in The Scriptures and by God’s only Son Jesus Christ.  Only then will his will be done here as it is in heaven.  In my humble opinion, not until this is done will God intervene on our behalf and the words of The Lord’s Prayer be accomplished.

Signed:
William Guy CARR
Clearwater Fla. Oct. 13th, 1958.

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World War One

In 1889, America became part of the web of treaties that would be severed by war. Was it coincidence or prophesy that in that year an Austrian mother gave birth to Adolph Hitler, a future master of secret agreements were made to be broken? Ten years later in 1899, following on the heels of their Philippine acquisition from Spain in 1898, the United States annexed eastern Samoa and Germany annexed western Samoa pursuant to the Treaty of Berlin. America was firmly in the European game that created overseas empires.

The seat of the Ottoman Empire sat astride Europe and Asia and a natural block to Russian ambitions for a southern passage into the Mediterranean Sea.  During this era, Ottoman and Turkey were names used interchangeably as did its major city known to the world as Constantinople or Istanbul.

Russia coveted the Straits of Constantinople, the mile wide Bosphorus separating two continents, behind the guise of protecting Christians from Ottoman persecution. Britain, France, Germany and the Ottomans, the one empire most directly affected, vigorously opposed the action. Originally these same European countries had conspired to grant Russia its dream of a southern path to the sea. When the deal fell apart, what followed was the Crimean war (1853-56), setting Britain against Russia. After the Constantinople  collapse of negotiations, the British forces were now deeply committed to defeating Russia, and were backed by France and the Ottoman Turks, now allies that had long held conflicting positions.

The rapidly dissolving Ottoman Empire left them with three options in 1914: remain neutral as favored by the Sultan, or more importantly the ruling junta controlled by a group known as the "young Turks", join the Triple Entente and ally with Russia, a menace on its border, or join with Germany and Austria that was also participating in the dismemberment of its six hundred year old empire. Their choice of the Triple Alliance sealed their ultimate destruction.

Great Britain, France, and Russia all were intent on defending the deep differences in their goals, but nevertheless bound them into a Triple Entente. They formed a mutual military alliance to counter the imperialistic ambitions of Germany and its allies Austria-Hungary and Italy, which formed the Triple Alliance.

Japan entered World War 1 in its first year (1914) ostensibly as Britain's ally, but effectively an ally of Russia and France.  Japanese strikes at Germany's Pacific possessions (prizes which Japan retained) drained German resources and manpower. It was not until 1916 that Japan and Russia had an official rapprochement. Their treaty provided that neither would make a separate peace treaty with Germany or any of its Central Powers allies. Japan's entry in 1914 justified the title of World War and heavily weighted the power of the Triple Entente.

On July 28,1914, Austria declared war on Serbia. The dominoes began to fall and all of the prior secret and public accords began to play out. July 30, Russia (Serbia ally) declared war on Austria-Hungary. On August 1, Germany (ally of Austria Hungary) declared war on Russia. August  3, Germany declares against France (Russian ally). August 4, Germany requires free passage through neutral Belgium (which was refused) to attack France and declares war against Belgium. United Kingdom responding on the same day to a breach of the 1839 Treaty guarantying  Belgian neutrality declares war on Germany.  August 6, Serbia (Russian ally) declares against Germany (Austria-Hungary ally). On the same day, (August 6), Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia. August 11, France (Russian ally) responds and declares war on Austria-Hungary (ally of Germany). August 12, United Kingdom declares war on Austria- Hungary (ally of Germany). At this point, the Central Powers had solidified their alliance minus Italy which had declared its neutrality, and completely jumped ship the following year in favor of the Triple Entente. Italy was opportunistic, but also concerned with the German's covetous intentions.

The unlikely glue that formed the Triple Entente was the Belgium Treaty of 1839 and the threat of a huge German navy that threatened British overseas commercial interests.

In 1915, the British Royal Navy and their French counterparts commenced a direct attack against Constantinople believing that success would end the war in the middle east.  The plan failed because of the mine laden waters of the Dardanelles.They then attempted a land invasion targeting the Ottoman capital through the Gallipoli peninsula. Their Australian colonists fought valiantly but the Turks exacted great casualties, and after eight months the victory belonged to the home team courtesy of mistakes made by British generals. This was the greatest achievement of the Ottomans in the entire war and featured the Turkish hero, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the future founder of the Turkish republic.

The Russian Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin were determined to exit the war. They probably assassinated the Czar and his family and proceeded, contrary to all prior agreements, to make a separate peace with Germany in 1917. The Triple Entente lost a partner. Russia perched on the Black Sea, lost the long sought outlet to the Mediterranean Sea.

From 1914-1917, the United States remained on the sidelines.  There had always been the public sentiment generated since its Revolutionary times to avoid foreign entanglements. It was averse to military pacts and secret agreements.

“Open covenants of peace openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.”

Nevertheless, there was a growing sentiment favoring Great Britain and France. Both countries were significant trading partners. The German policy (February 1, 1917) placed all neutral shipping at risk. American ships were fair game to German submarines.

On February 3, the American freighter, Housatanic was sunk. On April 1, the Aztec was sunk with 28 Americans lost.

Between those two hostile events, the German Ambassador to Mexico, Zimmerman, in a coded telegram (March 1), promised Mexico financial support and return of lost territories if they would declare war against the United States. British intelligence had decoded the message and passed it to the Americans. The note was published in the United States and public opinion immediately pressed the administration for a war against Germany.

President Wilson was about to make a 180 degree turn. While the war raged on three continents, Wilson intentionally had maintained a small army of just over 100,000 men. This was his way of dampening the calls for intervention. Circumstances now called for a new principle. Wilson had preached, during his first term, a principle that kept Americans safe from a foreign war. The new policy required American intervention to keep the  world "safe for democracy".

President Wilson sent a war request to Congress (April 2, 1917) which was overwhelmingly adopted. In the message, Wilson said:

"With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it, and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war".

America's entry into the war was met with similar declarations from Central and South American nations. Mexico was silent. Many of the associated countries were former enemies, but mutual interests with the United States and the Entente nations trumped: e.g. China and Japan. They were referred to as the "Allies" and their combined power would subdue the German alliance. The "Central Powers" were now outgunned in Asia.

American soldiers boarded the first ships to Europe in the spring of 1917 to join the British and French with whom they had no prior military alliance, but merely a friendly sympathy with their plight against a common enemy. Germany had overplayed its hand and forced an American reaction to act in concert with the original Triple Entente. In a strange act of nonconformity with its Entente allies, the United states never declared war against the Ottoman Empire. America's presence in the Middle East would have been welcomed by the French and British, who might have agreed to give the U.S. greater influence in the region after the war, and, in this manner, resolve their own conflicts with each other by completely withdrawing in the favor of a third party. An American that was devoted to peoples "self determination", President Wilson seems to have ignored the possibilities inherent in that paramount position that would have given the United States complete control of the Ottoman's southern empire (Syria, Palestine, Arabia), and an Arab population that admired the Americans, hated the French and mistrusted the British. "What if ?" We will never know.

Triple Alliance and Central Powers:                                                                      

Austria-Hungary, German Empire, Italy (until 1915), Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Jabal Shammar (Saudi Arabia), Sultanate of Darfur, Azerbaijan

Casualties 13 million
Men under arms 20 million
               
Triple Entente and Associated Powers:        

Great Britain, Third French Republic, Russia (until 1917)
Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, the British Empire, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, the Hejaz, Honduras, Italy (after 1914), Japan, Liberia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Siam, the United States, and Uruguay

Casualties 18 million
Men Under Arms 40 million

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