(Livy) The Start of War..Eww

It all began in 1901 when Turkey, Italy, Austria, France, England, Russia, and Germany started expanding and going to war. The Spring and Fall of 1901 were pretty smooth with the leaders strategizing on where to expand to and who were their allies. France's strategy seemed to be to take over the supply centers in the areas surrounding it. In Spring 1901, France took over Belgium in order to strengthen its forces in France. Since with the more supply centers there comes more forces, France decided to take over Spain and Portugal. I believe this to be a very smart move since the only threat would be Italy which you will later learn about. In Fall 1901, France gets power over Spain and later Portugal. England allies with its close pal, France. Since England is an island country, their leader realized that it has to be almost entirely dependent on fleets. England took over Holland after Germany failed to write their orders correctly. England was unable to expand more after Russia's good strategy of taking over Sweden and Norway. England continued its support for France for the three years that has occurred. With England and France having taken Holland and Belgium, Germany took Denmark in order to get another supply center. I am unsure about Germany's strategy of avoiding war with Russia since they took Sweden and Norway. I think that Germany's leader may need to reconsider since both Sweden and Norway contain supply centers which would strengthen forces in Germany. Austria did the obvious strategy of expanding the adjacent neutral areas to gain supply centers. Italy was a special case between the years of 1901 to 1903. Their leader decided to take the African coast with a supply center in Tunis. I believe this to be a good move, but then late 1902 and spring 1903 happen. Turkey decided to take over Italy without giving any aid to Italy. Italy's leader vacated Italy without a fight or asking for anything. I believe this was a terrible idea, Italy left its home country with nothing and only one fleet left. This tactic of leaving gave Turkey three supply centers along with the couple that it had gained in the neutral territory. By vacating, Italy was left with only Tunis on the African Coast. This gave Turkey full advantage to the treasures in Italy and strengthening its forces. Russia took over Sweden and Norway during this time which caused them to gain two supply centers and strength. There has been alot of expansion and land is running out, so conflict is sure to occur in dew time.