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#1 The origins of the First World War can be traced back to 1870, when Germany unified itself into a nation. Prior to then, Germany had been a collection of twenty-five kingdoms and principalities loosely governed by the state of Prussia, which was presided over by Kaiser William I.
#2 The last quarter of the nineteenth century was a time of world peace. The prosperous Gilded Age saw the development of the telephone, electric lights, automobiles, motion pictures, manufacturing advances, and luxury transatlantic shipping.
#3 Germany was also extremely concerned about its security. It had been in conflict with its neighbors almost since time immemorial, and in 1879, it forged an alliance with Austria-Hungary.
#4 The first thing Kaiser William II did after becoming emperor was to dismiss Bismarck, the man who had carefully laid out Germany’s foreign policy. He had long had his own ideas about how Germany’s future in world affairs should progress.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	28 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669372875
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The origins of the First World War can be traced back to 1870, when Germany unified itself into a nation. Prior to then, Germany had been a collection of twenty-five kingdoms and principalities loosely governed by the state of Prussia, which was presided over by Kaiser William I.

#2

The last quarter of the nineteenth century was a time of world peace. The prosperous Gilded Age saw the development of the telephone, electric lights, automobiles, motion pictures, manufacturing advances, and luxury transatlantic shipping.

#3

Germany was also extremely concerned about its security. It had been in conflict with its neighbors almost since time immemorial, and in 1879, it forged an alliance with Austria-Hungary.

#4

The first thing Kaiser William II did after becoming emperor was to dismiss Bismarck, the man who had carefully laid out Germany’s foreign policy. He had long had his own ideas about how Germany’s future in world affairs should progress.

#5

The German kaiser, Wilhelm II, was a military nut, and he made sure the German Army was well equipped with the Gatling gun. The German Army was not only able to master the Gatling gun, but also incorporate nearly 12,000 of them into their fighting battalions by the time World War I broke out.

#6

The French and Russians began courting the Germans, offering them loans and other emoluments. In 1892, as Churchill stated, the event against which the whole policy of Bismarck had been directed came to pass: Germany and Russia agreed to a dual alliance under which each would aid the other if attacked by another country.

#7

The sun rose on the new century, and with it, tensions between Germany and her neighbors increased. The Germans began to muscle in on the more desirable colonies of North Africa, which might have led to an early outbreak of world war.

#8

In the spring of 1909, Germany began to threaten France and Britain that if they did not agree to the German demands, they would go to war. The French and British began to fear that Germany would attack them through Belgium, which was a neutral country, and they began to strengthen their defenses.

#9

The invasion-through-Belgium strategy was what the Germans had in mind. In 1905, the German chief of the General Staff, Count Alfred von Schlieffen, completed his scheme to win a German victory in the event of war with France and Russia. His plan assumed that because of the various alliances, Germany and Austria would be fighting on two fronts.

#10

On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip shot and killed the Austrian heir to the Hapsburg throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and his wife, who had arranged to ride in a motorcade through the streets of Sarajevo. The Austrians immediately suspected that Serbia had committed this act of state-sponsored terrorism in order to rid the Balkans of any Austrian rule.

#11

On August 1, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia, and two days later on France. The Schlieffen Plan was immediately set into motion. Germany invaded neutral Luxembourg that evening, and demanded that Belgium allow the German Army to pass through their country unmolested.

#12

On August 3, Britain delivered an ultimatum to Germany, demanding that they respect Belgian neutrality, which England had guaranteed by an 1839 treaty. Germany did not respond, and the ultimatum expired at 11 p. m. the next night. Britain declared war, and the storm broke.
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#1

The Schlieffen Plan was a strategy that assumed the Germans would be fighting the French, and that the French would be fighting the Germans. It was designed to force the Germans to transfer troops from their center, which the French assumed would be farther north, near Luxembourg.

#2

The French were the first to try and use the strategy of attack, and they were met with disastrous results. The Germans, on the other hand, were ready for the attack and crushed the French.

#3

The Germans were quickly gaining a reputation for barbarism: burning towns, executing civilians, raping and mutilating women, taking hostages, and imposing grievous war taxes.

#4

The first wave of the British Expeditionary Force, under the command of General Sir John French, arrived in Belgium on August 22. They were ordered to link up with the French Fifth Army, which was centered on the fortress town of Namur. The land into which the British army marched was a strange and unsatisfactory place for a battle.

#5

The Germans had ground up the French offensives on the frontier and were suddenly driving the French and British southward from Belgium into France. It might have dawned on the British commander, Sir John French, that this was the same countryside where British under the Duke of Wellington had defeated Napoleon a hundred years earlier.

#6

The Battle of the Marne was the first major battle of the war, and it was a close thing. It was not long before the walls and hearts of Paris were trembling, and it seemed as if the conspiracy against Germany that half the world had been weaving for so many years was to be brought to a rapid conclusion.

#7

The Battle of the Marne was the first major battle of the First World War. It was a Miracle of the Marne, as the French broke their armies against strong German positions. However, it was the Germans who were attacking and the French who were defending.

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