Could Kaiser Germany have conquered the world?

[AggonyDuck]

Yeah, if I remember correctly German troops were quite deep in Russia before the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

[Salazar]

Afaik there werent really plans to conquer the world, originally that war was just about assisting the austrians against the russians who were pissed because of how stupid the austrians dealt with serbia (the serbians proposed a treaty of which even the germans said that it should be accepted, but the austrians just refused to do so), of course the french didnt like that, which prompted war against them too, and then the attack on belgium brought the british in. To me that sounds like no side actually wanted such a war, but all sides had no problem with taking the risk of it, if need be.

[DukeofSerbia]

Afaik there werent really plans to conquer the world, originally that war was just about assisting the austrians against the russians who were pissed because of how stupid the austrians dealt with serbia (the serbians proposed a treaty of which even the germans said that it should be accepted, but the austrians just refused to do so), of course the french didnt like that, which prompted war against them too, and then the attack on belgium brought the british in. To me that sounds like no side actually wanted such a war, but all sides had no problem with taking the risk of it, if need be.

Actually, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, then Russia on A-H because they were our allies. Then Germany declared war on Russia as A-H ally. After that France declared war on Germany as Russian ally and Germany attacked France via Belgium and UK went in war. Little complicated?!