Pre - 1914 Documents

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• Treaties and Documents Relative to the Neutrality of the Netherlands and Belgium
  </dd>1839-1914
  </dd>Taken from an appendix to Alexander Fuehr's The Neutrality of Belgium (1915)
• Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law
  </dd>16 April 1856.
• The Treaty of London
  </dd>21 June 1867
  </dd>Granting neutrality to Luxembourg
  </dd>(French translation)
• St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Certain Explosive Projectiles
  </dd>29 November - 11 December 1868
• Timeline of Events
  </dd>1870 - 1914
• The Ems Telegram
  </dd>1870
  </dd>Precipitating the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71
• The Dual Alliance Between Austria-Hungary and Germany
  </dd>7 October 1879
• Oxford Laws of War on Land
  </dd>9 September 1880
• On the Nature of War by Helmut Moltke (the Elder)
  </dd>1880
• The Three Emperors' League
  </dd>18 June 1881
  </dd>Linking Germany and Austria-Hungary with Russia.
• The Triple Alliance
  </dd>20 May 1882
  </dd>Joining Italy with the Germany/Austria-Hungary alliance.
  </dd>(Eight articles in the original French)
  </dd>See also expanded version of 1912
• The Triple Alliance (The English Translation)
  </dd>20 May 1882
  </dd>See also expanded version of 1912
• Bismarck and the "Polish Question."
  </dd>28 January 1886
  </dd>Speech to the Lower House of the Prussian Parliament
  </dd>(English translation)
• The Reinsurance Treaty
  </dd>18 June 1887
  </dd>Bismarck's alliance with Russia
• Die Internationale
  </dd>1888
  </dd>Translated by Richard S. Levy
• Bismarck's Fall from Power
  </dd>1890
• Wilhelm II -- Swearing In New Recruits
  </dd>23 November 1891
• The Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention
  </dd>18 August 1892
  </dd>Leading to the Triple Entente
• Willy-Nicky Letters between the Kaiser and the Czar
  </dd>1894 - 1914
  </dd>(English translations -- including introduction and timeline)
• British Official Documents on the Origins of the War
  </dd>Multi-volume set ed. by G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley
  </dd>Vol. I, The End of British Isolation: 1897 - 1903,University of Toronto Digital Collections
  </dd>Vol. XI, The Outbreak of War: June 28 - August 4 1914,Dual Frame version;  Standard version
  </dd>Major Resource!
• Hague Convention
  </dd>29 July 1899 & other ratification dates
• The First 'Open Door Note'
  </dd>6 September 1899
• Bülow's 'Hammer and Anvil' Speech before the Reichstag
  </dd>11 December 1899
  </dd>(German original)
• Bülow's 'Hammer and Anvil' Speech before the Reichstag (The English Translation)
  </dd>11 December 1899
  </dd>(English translation)
• Kaiser Wilhelm II on German Interests in China
  </dd>2 July 1900
• The ABC Proposal for British Foreign Policy
  </dd>November 1901
• Anglo-Japanese Alliance
  </dd>30 January 1902
  </dd>To counter French and Russian designs in the Far East
• The Entente Cordiale Between The United Kingdom and France
  </dd>8 April 1904
  </dd>Later joined by Russia
• The Schlieffen Plan
  </dd>1905
• The First Moroccan Crisis
  </dd>31 March 1905
• Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War
  </dd>1905
• The Anglo-Russian Entente
  </dd>1907
• Proclamation of the Young Turks
  </dd>1908
• The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary
  </dd>September - October 1908
• The Daily Telegraph Affair
  </dd>28 October 1908
• The Racconigi Bargain
  </dd>(Excerpts)
  </dd>October 1909
• Norman Angell's The Great Illusion
  </dd>1910
• Agadir Crisis: Lloyd George's Mansion House Speech
  </dd>21 July 1911
• Luxembourg Railways Intelligence Report
  </dd>24 September 1911
  </dd>(Contains facsimiles of original handwritten documents)
• The Narodna Odbrana
  </dd>1911
• Constitution of the Black Hand
  </dd>1911
• The Haldane Mission
  </dd>8 - 12 February 1912
• Heinrich Class, "If I were Kaiser"
  </dd>1912
  </dd>English translation of Wenn ich Kaiser wär'.
• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance
  </dd>5 December 1912
  </dd>(Fifteen articles in the original French.)
• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance (English translation of the above)
  </dd>5 December 1912
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• Austro-Hungarian / Rumanian Accord
  </dd>5 February 1913
  </dd>(In the original French)
• President Wilson's Inaugural Address
  </dd>4 March 1913
• The Zabern Affair
  </dd>1913
• British Imperial Connexions to the Arab National Movement
  </dd>1912-1914
• Prince Lichnowsky's Mission to London, Memoirs
  </dd>1912-1914
• The Next War, by General Friedrich von Bernhardi
  </dd>1914

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