A World History of Our Own Times: From the turn of the century to the 1918 armisticeSimon and Schuster, 1949 |
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... Kaiser " wanted to partition all of Manchuria and part of North China with the Tsar , at the same time gaining concessions from Russia in Eastern Europe , the Middle East , and along the route of the projected Berlin - Bagdad Railway ...
... Kaiser " wanted to partition all of Manchuria and part of North China with the Tsar , at the same time gaining concessions from Russia in Eastern Europe , the Middle East , and along the route of the projected Berlin - Bagdad Railway ...
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... Kaiser's personal direction of German affairs . He crumpled under the attack , plaintively - and cor- rectly - insisting that the Foreign Office had seen and approved the text in advance . What actually happened was that the Kaiser ...
... Kaiser's personal direction of German affairs . He crumpled under the attack , plaintively - and cor- rectly - insisting that the Foreign Office had seen and approved the text in advance . What actually happened was that the Kaiser ...
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... Kaiser's energy . The German people did not share the vanity and fear that lay behind the Kaiser's energy ; they did not share the laziness and conceit that lay behind Bülow's self - assurance . But just as the Kaiser and Bülow failed ...
... Kaiser's energy . The German people did not share the vanity and fear that lay behind the Kaiser's energy ; they did not share the laziness and conceit that lay behind Bülow's self - assurance . But just as the Kaiser and Bülow failed ...
Contents
THE WORLD OF 1900 | 7 |
CHAPTER PAGE 1 EUROPE AND GERMANY 3 | 7 |
THE LESSER TWOTHIRDS OF THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE | 23 |
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