Outbreak Of WW1

Question 1

German aggression facts/points

Answer 1

Nature of Weltpolitik + Flottenpolitik
Schleiffen Plan developed in 1905
Moroccan Crises 1905-6 and 1911 - Germany being aggressive to try and break up the Anglo-French alliance - brinkmanship
‘Blank cheque’ to A-H

Question 2

Shared guilt points 1.

Answer 2

Imperialism, brinkmanship
All countries made war plan and held war meetings - Fr, Br and Russia held military conversations from 1906 onwards
Br and G participated in naval race - by 1914, G had 13 Dreadnoughts while Br had 19.

Question 3

Shared guilt points 2

Answer 3

France wanted ‘la revanche’ (revenge) for its defeats in Prussia and the loss of Alsace-Lorraine - but couldn’t face Germany alone so sought allies precisely for the want of war with Germany.
Balkan wars
Franco-Russian Alliance left G open to a war on two fronts.
It was Austria that forced Serbia with a deliberately unacceptable ultimatum.