HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: First Moroccan Crisis
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The origins of the first world war part one/ number. Germans thought the british would be more likely to deal with. However, britons focused on expanding their own territory. Britain would be opposed to any power trying to dominate. Europe or any power to have large navy than them. It had 12; 10-inch guns and they could fire their projectiles over several miles. Technology was used to localize the enemy. In 1909 there were false reports were the german"s fleets were exaggerated: there was a public panic because of this, winston churchill stated that cabinet authorized 6 more, it was an unstoppable arms race. Britain had gone to colonial conflict with the afrikaans in south africa. Afrikaans was the dutch man that colonialized south africa first. The french at first offered them to join forces against britain. The british decided that diplomacy was necessary for survival.
