The Great War of 1914
The Great War of 1914
The Great War had a greater and more catastrophic impact on a wide range of human activities than any previous conflict, and that impact was felt across the world. The outbreak of the war in the summer of 1914 came at the end of a long period of largely uninterrupted peace in Europe and effectively brought to an end an era marked by European ascendancy and imperial dominance of the globe. Its origins also lay fundamentally in the tensions of European imperial competition.
As with all historical events and processes, the Great War can be said to have had a variety of interrelated causes: rising nationalism, enduring Franco-German mistrust, competing claims for ...
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might was one of the great powers of Europe. German statesmen and military leaders began to nourish and pursue their ambitions for the new powerful Germany claiming a place as one of the great global powers. Germany sought to establish a German-dominated 'Mitteleuropa', a central European region of effective German empire, and a 'Mittelafrika', a significant German colonial presence in southern and eastern Africa. Paralleling these imperial ambitions were fears: of the rising population of 'Slavic' Europe and the threat posed by Russia; of encirclement by the Triple Entente of France, Russia and Britain; of the naval, imperial and commercial power of Great Britain. Germany planned to neutralize all these threats, subjugate her continental European rivals, and establish herself as a great power on a par with, and even excelling, Great Britain, by means of diplomacy, aggressive imperialism, the building up of her army and navy, and, ultimately, through war.
Such were the longer-term ...
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and the excuse for war, that Austria sought; despite Serbia's agreement to all but one of the Austrian provisions, war was duly declared and Russia's immediate backing for Serbia ensured that the war would not remain a local affair. Germany rapidly declared war against Russia and France; the Ottoman Empire, fearing partition at the hands of Russia, Britain and France allied itself with Germany, and German violation of Belgian neutrality brought Britain into the war with her entente partners. Italy, motivated by long-standing tension with Austria and her own imperial ambitions in Africa and southern Europe, joined the entente powers in May 1915, while the United States supported ...
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