German Empire

INTRODUCTION World War 1 occurred during 1914-1918 and was originally called The Great War before the Second World War in 1939. It had a devastating impact on all of the countries that were involved as the mortality rate was huge. There were several reasons The Great War started which included some long term causes such as Imperialism & Nationalism as well as a few short term triggers that included the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie which in turn became known as the…

Otto von Bismarck was a master of foreign affairs and a great politician at his time. He effectively ruled Prussia first and then all of Germany, between 1862 and 1890. His solution to never having war was to create a system of alliances to making it mutually beneficial to all of the great powers and therefore protect his newly united Germany and allowing it to strengthen. Bismarck's objective of the foreign policy was to keep peace among the people. Bismarck saw France taking revenge on…

of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Kaiser has all control over the Germany. He always elected the government officials. But World war one changed that all. Germany citizens were always under the impression that they had their power over the world even then empire was falling apart. When the people of their country figured out that they were lied to, they rebelled again the government. There was a drastic change in the change of on Germany’s Government after the world war one. Germany was a giant mess…

distrust and intense rivalry in Europe. Countries like Great Britain and Russia felt compelled to increase the size and training of their armies and navies so that Germany, or any other militaristic country, could not easily overpower them. In addition, German militarism led to a focus on conflict that made many Europeans anticipate war. By holding armies of a million or more men and strategizing heavily for combat, countries, such as Germany, Great…

of American symbols such, Statue of Liberty, or American flag. The symbol of heroic soldiers displayed as giant like figures towering over evil. For example in “Halt the Hun!” shows an Allied soldier forcing a German soldier off a terrorized women who has a child in her arms. The German soldier has blood on his body and is standing in front of a wall of fire in the background. Between the two you see a sense of relief once the Allied soldier steps in. There are many different forms of…

Rosa Luxemburg, a Polish-German Social Democrat, gave a detailed Marxian analysis for her opposition to the First World War in “The Workers and the War” in 1916 when she was in prison, during the height of the war, and when its outcome of the war was unclear. Her detailed analysis for her opinions were outlined throughout “The Workers and the War”, providing the nature and causes for the war along with the effects of certain scenarios as a result of the war. In Germany, the economy is in ruins,…

Known as the “spark” in the “Powder Keg of Europe”, the tensions that have already been growing between Austria-Hungary and Serbia before the start of WWI, eventually led to the start of a war between many major powers of the world. This “spark” is commonly known as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Ferdinand was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and was murdered by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen of Austria-Hungary and member of the Black Hand movement, a group…

I believe that Edwin L. Godwin is foreshadowing in his essay, “The Eclipse of Liberalism,” of the many of conflicts that will occur in the first half of the twentieth century when he warns about the danger of nationalism once liberalism fades away. Godwin originally wrote the essay in 1900. Within the essay, he argues that liberalism rose as a consequence of the corruption and abuse suffered under monarchies. Towards the end, Godwin mentions how nationalism is now dominating over liberalism,…

The Schlieffen Plan was the German army’s plan for war against France and Russia. It was created by the German Chief Alfred von Schlieffen in December 1905. This operational plan was for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilise their forces near the German border. During World War I, Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II fought a two-front war against the French, British, Belgian, and (later) American forces on the Western Front while…

Germany. People would say that Militarism was the most important because in document 5, Reynold, a cartoonist from London during march 9, 1913 drew a picture for people in London to know what Germany is up to in the world. In the Drawing, it show a german with a huge gun walking towards the path of war. An armoured train is going towards the path of war also. Even though Militarism was an important cause, the alliance was more important during World War 1. The war started when Serbia rebellion…