The Origins of the First World War (Lancaster Pamphlets) by Ruth Henig

By Ruth Henig

"The Origins of the 1st global War" is a concise advent to at least one of the main old controversies. This pamphlet: surveys the roots of the clash; assesses the legacy of Bismarck's international relations; outlines the assassination obstacle; specializes in affects affecting person nations; and examines the historic debate. This version contains a new creation, a chronology of the major occasions and an replace at the old debate explaining the instructions during which the historiography is heading.

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While delegates of the new Weimar republican government in Germany signed the treaty of Versailles under protest, there was little willingness in Germany to accept sole responsibility for causing the war. Article 231 was attacked as a politically motivated slight on the part of vengeful enemies against a country which was no more guilty than any other of plotting to start a war in 1914. The German response The German interpretation of the situation which had faced their country before 1914 was of a Germany increasingly encircled by an aggressive alignment of Russia, France and Britain.

Lowes Dickinson, entitled The International Anarchy, portrayed the total bankruptcy of the old European diplomatic system, while its author hailed the new era of collective diplomacy which would ensure peace under the watchful eye of the League of Nations. This view of a general European breakdown before 1914 was shared by two very different world leaders after 1918, the United States President, Woodrow Wilson, and the leader of the new Bolshevik regime, Lenin. Woodrow Wilson believed very strongly that secret diplomacy and the selfish greed of the pre-war European great powers had brought them into collision in 1914.

Seizing an opportunity he thought had passed, Princip opened fire and shot Franz Ferdinand dead. The outbreak of war-July/August 1914 A showdown between Austria-Hungary and Serbia was now inevitable. Though Princip was Bosnian and therefore an Austro-Hungarian subject, it was strongly suspected that he and other terrorists had been supplied with weapons and training from army officers highly placed in the Serbian administration. The opportunity which had now presented itself for the Austrians to take military action against the Serbs was too good to miss, especially in the light of the actual crime committed.

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