Otto Von Bismark's Decision To Blame For The First World War

Through the book ‘Europe’s Last Summer’ David Fromkin tackles the issues of pre WWI Europe, and the surrounding political, economic, social, debacles that led paranoid countries to go to arms after nearly a full century of relative peace within the European continent. While Fromkin certainly points his fingers to all the nations of Europe his primary focus lies with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Though he continues to stress throughout much of the book that Kaiser Wilhelm II and Archduke Ferdinand were fervent keepers of the peace within their nations, the fault of the war ultimately could be laid at the feet of their two nations and their constant attempts at war-mongering. He claims the war could have been avoided for the moment, had all the nations of Europe wanted peace, but the two bad eggs of Europe drew them all into an unavoidable general war.

innocent lives taken just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time! We

and can now reason what could have been done to prevent all of this. Had it not been for the

World War, the Nazis knew what there were doing and believed that in destroying the

Even after the lives of four little girls were taken, those responsible did not feel any guilt or remorse. Americans finally began to pay

From the mid 1920s onward there was talk of forming a formal European Union but rising nationalism and a world wide depression stopped any concrete advancement. The League of Nations had failed, economies had collapsed and radical right wing solutions seemed the only viable alternative after governments collapsed one after another. England remained in isolation, Germany was rearming and France was still in shock after horrible loses in WWI. After the inevitable WWII all was in ruin and the lesson finally struck home, No more! Peace and prosperity through unity and common understanding finally allowed the formation off the EEU. Europe could not survive as a polyglot of waring tribes. They need a counter balance to world domination by two superpowers

     While the onset of war led to a hugely inflated military production capacity, American industry never completed reversion back to the pre-war focus on purely civilian items. In fact, the value of military production facilities increased by 3300% between 1939 and 1944, and less than a third of all plants created during the war were converted to civilian production (Walton 551). Paul Koistinen writes,

All of the sources give different impressions as to wether Germany's leaders are responsibe for the outbreak of the First World War. Source 1 seems to strongly suggest that German leaders and the German Government did in fact push for the war with Hewitson blaming the Army and suggesting that Germany was looking for an opportunity to start war however he does not fully support the view that German leaders were responsible.Porter and Armour (Source 2) strongly supports this view by again pointing to the millitary and prime minister Bethmann Hollweg looking for an opportunity to wage war but again not fully placing the blame on Germany but looking at the threating actions of Russia and Britain. In contrast to both Source 1 and 2 Norman Stone

in this day and age who is to blame for the First World War is still a

D. McCann Origins of WW1 Essay, Term 2 2017, Year 9 History Essay Question: “Germany is totally to blame for the start of the First World War.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? Introduction: Long Term Causes/ Everybody’s fault Germany is totally to blame for the start of the First World War.

In between the timeline of World War One and World War Two, political leaders, states, and nations were fighting against each other with and without the usage of weapons. The ideology of great philosophers, and raising leaders, such as: Herbert Spencer, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Great Britain, and Russia brought civil wars and battles during the small timeframe between world wars. Before we go into depth on the one 30-year war, we begin with the settings of this one-30 year war. In the beginning of the 19th century, European powerhouses, France and Russia, obtained the same equal power. At the same period, Germany’s industry began to grow tremendously which brought rival, Britain. Germany’s economics in industrial were growing due to the exports of heavy materials, and beneficially to politicians running the state. The economic growth of Germany lead them to create the Triple Alliance in 1882. The reason for this secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungry, and Italy was because Germany felt that its economic growth would lead to war with their rivals. In response to the Triple Alliance 1882, the Triple Entente of 1894 was created by France, Russia, and Great Britain. Nevertheless, Germany was thinking in advanced, and planed the Schlieffen. A plan that Germany created, if war would to break out, to attack France and then Great Britain excluding Russia. On June 28th 1914, the Archduke

It was meant to be the war to end all wars, but failed to succeed,

Is the notion of German responsibility a satisfactory explanation of the causes of the Great War?

Many of Europe’s 'founding fathers' (such as Monnet and Schumann) shared a 'federalist' vision for Europe. They hoped for a European polity which would cooperate for the greater good, above the national divisions that had caused such calamity in the recent past. Convinced in that a strong supranational body, with the ability to make executive decisions, was vital for peace and prosperity that goes beyond what can be achieved with treaties between nations (Ash 2005).

The development of anything takes time, be it a child or a global governing body. There is an erroneous assumption in the world that the concept of the European Union, the idea of having a shared currency, and borderless pan-European continent is new. However, the pan-European identity present in Modern Europe took time to establish, especially after the continent was devastated by two World Wars. The idea of a pan-European identity as it is known today through the European Union was established after the end of the Second World War, as the need for a united Western Europe was needed to combat the increasing influence of the United States on the European economy and the possible threat of war with the Soviet Union. The policies of the