HIST 2003 Lecture 2: Origins of WWI
12 Dec 2017
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Based on meticulous research in german archives, written by a german, politically left wing, clearly blamed germany for starting the war: fischer"s evidence: mitteleuropa german nationalists talked about in years leading up to 1914. Idea the germany dominated central european power block most willing to go to war in 1914 in order to achieve world power status, september program drawn up by. German chancellor in 1914, written in a time that it appeared germany was going to win the war. An articulation of the mitteleuropa vision, seeing france reduced to satellite state, belgium occupied by german troops, Russians pushed as far back to the east of humanely possible, and eastern states under. The most sophisticated and controversial thesis regarding germany and. Wwi: beware of general theories single explanation won"t be sophisticated enough to explain, rise of social darwinism in europe nothing to do with socialism, not much to do with.
