HIS103Y1 Lecture : HIS103 25. The Origins of the First World War- Part I
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Key words: the origins of the first world war: part one. It all began with a profound mistake made by the german foreign policy elite. In the spring to early summer of 1890. Bismarck had resigned in 1890 because of a disagreement between with the emperor and the rest of the ruling political elite over how best to deal socialism. So for reasons of domestic problems and the liberal policy of the new emperor bismarck resigned. In international affairs this gave chance to von caprivi holstein, now the mover in the german foreign office. Holstein had been unhappy with the apparent contradictions in the. He thought that ultimately the dual alliance and the reassurance treaty were contradictory. And he was right in arguing in saying that reassurance treaty stood in contradiction of the austro- Holstein, impatient with the existing contradictions, also suspicious of.
