The Great War - World War I

The Great War - World War I

Archduke Franz Ferdinand bit the bullet,
a terrorist from Bosnia was the culprit.
Europe was stunned by this sudden action,
all of it's countries waited for a reaction.

Austria-Hungary would soon declare war,
but Russia came in to settle a score.
The next country to jump in was Germany,
but the French would not let that be.

Germany walked into Belgian territory,
England came in and that's their story.
Other countries were now brought to war,
it didn't last a year, it was more than four.

In those trenches of mud and water,
bodies lie from an innocent slaughter.
Man had found a new way to destroy,
tanks and guns became their new toy.

Germany's secret weapon was mustard gas,
killing large amounts of soldiers fairly fast.
To defeat it the Canadians were the ones to detect,
by urinating on a handkerchief would stop the effect.

War had ended in Europe with Germany's fall,
an embarrassing Treaty of Versailles had end it all.
The treaty said these countries would fight no more,
but they didn't know there'd be a second World War.