HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Karl Agathon, Militarism, Industrial Revolution
8 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The outbreak of world war one: the broad context, the events of 1914, the public reacion, the fall into war. Germany: industrial power: foreign trade doubled between 1870 and 1900. Naionalism: south slavs want independence from austria-hungary, russia wants to help with pan-slavism, germany wants place in the sun , france wants alsace-lorraine. Tensions in morocco, egypt (germans, french and briish) Germany, italy and austria-hungary have the triple alliance. Bismarck (1898): if there is another war in europe it will come out of some damned foolish thing in the. Gavrilo princip and the assasinaion, june 28, 1914. July 23, a. m. : russia orders period preparatory to war . July 23, p. m. : serbia orders mobilizaion of its army. July 29-30: kaiser wilhelm and tsar nicholas telegraph exchange. August 4: great britain declares war on germany. Germans: strike now" mentality; believed that schliefen plan would work. Lack of understanding of kind of war it would be.
