Diplomatic history of World War I | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:38 1 War aims
00:02:27 1.1 Allied war goals
00:05:18 1.2 German war goals
00:07:33 1.3 Approaches to diplomacy
00:14:27 1.4 Toward a League of Nations
00:15:33 2 Financing the war
00:19:44 3 Allies
00:19:52 3.1 Great Britain
00:20:30 3.1.1 Entry
00:22:02 3.1.2 Balfour Declaration: Palestine and  Jewish home land
00:25:39 3.1.3 Blockade of Germany
00:26:32 3.2 France
00:28:05 3.3 Russia
00:28:13 3.3.1 Leadership
00:31:05 3.3.2 Propaganda
00:32:51 3.3.3 February Revolution
00:34:20 3.3.4 Bolshevik versus White
00:36:08 3.4 Belgium
00:38:42 3.5 Japan
00:40:21 3.6 China
00:42:01 3.7 Romania
00:45:48 3.8 Greece
00:48:24 4 American entry in 1917
00:48:44 4.1 American neutrality
00:51:50 4.2 Submarine issue
00:54:32 4.3 Ethnic groups
00:55:57 4.4 National security
00:58:43 4.5 Decision for war
01:01:47 4.6 Wartime diplomacy
01:03:52 5 Central Powers
01:04:01 5.1 Germany
01:04:09 5.1.1 Eastern Front
01:05:03 5.1.2 Russia surrenders: the Treaty of Brest Litovsk
01:06:59 5.1.3 Subversion of enemy states
01:09:23 5.2 Austro-Hungarian Empire
01:14:10 5.3 Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
01:17:30 5.3.1 Armenian Genocide
01:19:29 5.4 Bulgaria
01:22:08 6 New nations
01:22:17 6.1 Poland
01:24:54 6.2 Ukraine
01:27:06 6.3 Three Baltic states
01:28:57 6.4 Czechoslovakia
01:30:23 7 See also
01:30:31 8 Notes
01:30:40 9 Further reading
01:30:48 9.1 Surveys
01:37:24 9.2 Great Britain
01:40:25 9.3 France and other Allies
01:42:57 9.4 Russia
01:45:58 9.5 United States
01:49:42 9.6 Central Powers
01:52:01 9.7 Historiography
01:53:28 9.8 Primary sources and year books
01:56:55 10 External links



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The Diplomatic history of World War I covers the non-military interactions among the major players during World War I. For the domestic histories see Home front during World War I. For a longer-term perspective see International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919) and Causes of World War I. For the following era see International relations (1919–1939). The major allied players included Great Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (starting in 1915) and the United States (from 1917). The major  Central Powers included Germany and the Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). Other countries—and their colonies—were also involved.  For a detailed chronology see Timeline of World War I.
The non-military diplomatic and propaganda interactions among the nations were designed to build support for the cause, or to undermine support for the enemy. Wartime diplomacy focused on five issues: subversion and propaganda campaigns to weaken the morale of the enemy; defining and redefining the war goals, which became harsher as the war went on; luring neutral nations (Italy, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Romania) into the coalition by offering slices of enemy territory; and encouragement by the Allies of nationalistic minority movements inside the Central Powers, especially among Czechs, Poles, and Arabs.  In addition, there were multiple peace proposals coming from neutrals, or one side or the other;  none of them progressed very far. Some were neutral efforts to end the horrors. Others were propaganda ploys to show one side was being reasonable and the other was obstinate.