Wilhelmine Germany: Weltpolitik and the Drift to the War Flashcards
Dual Alliance France and Russia
1894
First Navy Law
1898
Second Navy Law
1900
Entente between Britain and France
1904
First Moroccan Crisis
provoked France, Britain and Russia into unity against Germany
1905-06
Launch of the Dreadnought
1906
Bosnian Crisis (Austrian annexation of this occupied territory)
1908-09
Appointment of Bethmann-Hollweg as Chancellor
1909
Second Moroccan Crisis
1911
SPD largest party in Reichstag
1912
1914 June 28
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
1914 July 5-6
Germany gave Austria the ‘blank cheque’
1914 July 23
Austrian ultimatum to Serbia
1914 August 1
German declaration of war on Russia
1914 August 3
German declaration of war on France
1914 August 4
British declaration of war on Germany