Pre - 1914 Documents

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The Shlieffen Plan
• Treaties and Documents Relative to the Neutrality of the Netherlands and Belgium
  1839-1914
  Taken from an appendix to Alexander Fuehr's The Neutrality of Belgium (1915)
• Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law
  16 April 1856.
• The Treaty of London
  21 June 1867
  Granting neutrality to Luxembourg
  (French translation)
• St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Certain Explosive Projectiles
  29 November - 11 December 1868
• Timeline of Events
  1870 - 1914
• The Ems Telegram
  1870
  Precipitating the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71
• The Dual Alliance Between Austria-Hungary and Germany
  7 October 1879
• Oxford Laws of War on Land
  9 September 1880
• On the Nature of War by Helmut Moltke (the Elder)
  1880
• The Three Emperors' League
  18 June 1881
  Linking Germany and Austria-Hungary with Russia.
• The Triple Alliance
  20 May 1882
  Joining Italy with the Germany/Austria-Hungary alliance.
  (Eight articles in the original French)
  See also expanded version of 1912
• The Triple Alliance (The English Translation)
  20 May 1882
  See also expanded version of 1912 (In English)
• Bismarck and the "Polish Question."
  28 January 1886
  Speech to the Lower House of the Prussian Parliament
  (English translation)
• The Reinsurance Treaty
  18 June 1887
  Bismarck's alliance with Russia
• Die Internationale
  1888
  Translated by Richard S. Levy
• Bismarck's Fall from Power
  1890
• Wilhelm II -- Swearing In New Recruits
  23 November 1891
• The Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention
  18 August 1892
  Leading to the Triple Entente
• Willy-Nicky Letters between the Kaiser and the Czar
  1894 - 1914
  Transcriptions of original English correspondence.
  See also facsimile of the 1920 print edition.
• British Official Documents on the Origins of the War
  Multi-volume set ed. by G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley
  Vol. I, The End of British Isolation: 1897 - 1903
  University of Toronto Digital Collections
  Vol. XI, The Outbreak of War: June 28 - August 4 1914
  Dual Frame version
  Standard version
  Major Resource!
• Hague Convention
  29 July 1899 & other ratification dates
• The First 'Open Door Note'
  6 September 1899
• Bülow's 'Hammer and Anvil' Speech before the Reichstag
  11 December 1899
  (German original)
• Bülow's 'Hammer and Anvil' Speech before the Reichstag (The English Translation)
  11 December 1899
  (English translation)
• Kaiser Wilhelm II on German Interests in China
  2 July 1900
• The ABC Proposal for British Foreign Policy
  November 1901
• Anglo-Japanese Alliance
  30 January 1902
  To counter French and Russian designs in the Far East
• The Entente Cordiale Between The United Kingdom and France
  8 April 1904
  Later joined by Russia
• The Schlieffen Plan
  1905
• The First Moroccan Crisis
  31 March 1905
• Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War
  1905
• The Anglo-Russian Entente
  1907
• Proclamation of the Young Turks
  1908
• The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary
  September - October 1908
• The Daily Telegraph Affair
  28 October 1908
• The London Naval Conference

26 February 1909

• The Racconigi Bargain
  (Excerpts)
  October 1909
• Norman Angell's The Great Illusion
  1910
• Agadir Crisis: Lloyd George's Mansion House Speech
  21 July 1911
• Luxembourg Railways Intelligence Report
  24 September 1911
  (Contains facsimiles of original handwritten documents)
• The Narodna Odbrana
  1911
• Constitution of the Black Hand
  1911
• The Haldane Mission
  8 - 12 February 1912
• Heinrich Class, "If I were Kaiser"
  1912
  English translation of Wenn ich Kaiser wär'.
• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance
  5 December 1912
  (Fifteen articles in the original French.)
• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance (English translation of the above)
  5 December 1912
• Austro-Hungarian / Rumanian Accord
  5 February 1913
  (In the original French)
• President Wilson's Inaugural Address
  4 March 1913
• The Zabern Affair
  1913
• British Imperial Connexions to the Arab National Movement
  1912-1914
• Prince Lichnowsky's Mission to London, Memoirs
  1912-1914
• The Next War, by General Friedrich von Bernhardi
  1914

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