Wow, World War One was basically: "My horse is better than your horse, your horse sucks and is completely evil. Mine will definitely win the race when it comes because it is the biggest and strongest. Let's all race so we can show that our horse will win."
It kinda makes me wanna smash my head against a table. That's pretty much what my History teacher did when we didn't get his dad joke, except it was on the Whiteboard.