#declaring war

[ryuuryuuhoney]

@rosestadt SQUARE UP- YOU HAVE MADE A GRAVE ERROR, AND NOW I WILL FIGHT FIGHT BATISTA FIGHT

[thisdayinwwi]

Apr 2 1917 - America Enters WWI

Apr 2 1917 EXTRA! War With Germany Is Call Before Congress

Apr 2 1917 Tacoma Times -  WAR

Apr 2 1917 Seattle Star US Now At War!

Apr 2 1917 War Declarations Before Congress Today

[toesareforfeet]

fucking bolsonaro bitch ass declared WAR on the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

[inky-duchess]

You might have already answered this, but when it came to countries declaring war on each other in the ~olden days~ how would they go about doing it? Was it enough to just say "hey I'm invading you" or was there some kind of specific process that had to be done in order for them to be officially at war with each other?

It could either come as an attack, just a sudden invasion over the borders, or as a letter stating war is coming sent to their rival (Actually probably a dumb idea but it is polite) or even be part of the terms of an alliance ex. Spain and France sign a treaty to attack England together. The Romans had a cool version of declaring war. They would take a spear and go to the temple of Bellona, the goddess of war and thrust a spear into a patch if scared ground. The armies could march that day or even a year but they would march for they were at war.

[imgone12334]

I have had it with art block

[giantmonster]

[reecedarlene]

She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated. In a way she realized that she herself was doomed, that sooner or later the Thought Police would catch her and kill her, but with another part of her mind she believed that it was somehow possible to construct a secret world in which you could live as you chose. All you needed was luck and cunning and boldness. She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse.

George Orwell - “1984″

[thisdayinwwi]

Aug 1 1914 in WWI

Aug 1 1915 Berlin crowd listens as Lieutenant Max von Viebahn announcing the state of war, reads Kaiser's order for the country's military to mobilize. 3rd picture is of the German royal family being cheered by German crowds August 1 1914

IWM Q 88245, IWM Q 81755

Enthusiasm of the crowd for the war. Scene in Unter den Linden on its outbreak, August 1914. On the balcony are the Crown Prince Wilhelm and his wife whom the crowd are cheering. The building on the left, on which the flag is flying, is the Royal Palace.

IWM Q 52738