Germany in World War I

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The paper examines numerous speeches and declarations made by various leaders from Europe during the period of the First World War. The paper discusses the causative factor that set off tensions and culminated into a full fledged First World War between several powerful nations. The paper explores how French President Poincare declared to his citizens in a speech that France had been inadvertently pushed into a war, much against her own will, with absolutely no warning at all from Germany. The paper concludes that Germany, having made the final decision to declare war, would have to bear the cross throughout history, as declared by Poincare.

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"In a letter sent by the Imperial Chancellor, the Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, to Emperor Wilhelm II, on July 26 1914, from Berlin, he requests the Emperor Wilhelm II to order the High Seas Fleet to remain in Norway, so that the burden of England's 'proposed mediation action' at Petersburg, which was in fact a little bit shaky at the moment, would be lightened and lessened. The answer that Wilhelm gave was that, "My fleet has orders to sail for Kiel, and to Kiel it is going to go", and anyway, he reiterated, the mediation action at Petersburg was not all that shaky. Wilhelm wonders where the Imperial Chancellor got his information from!"

Sample of Sources Used:

• 1 August 1914, the German Declaration of war on Russia. Accessed 20 July 2006; available from http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/germandecruss.html
• 2 August 1914, the German request for free passage through Belgium. Accessed 20 July 2006; available from http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/germpassbelg.html
• 3 August 1914, the Belgian Refusal of Free Passage. Accessed 20 July 2006; available from http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/belgsayno.html
• 3 August 1914, Sir Edward Grey's Speech before the House of Commons. Accessed 20 July 2006; available from http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/greytalk.html
• 4 August 1914, Origin of the term, a scrap of paper. Accessed 20 July 2006; available from http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/paperscrap.html

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