German entry into World War I | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-16

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00:02:14 1 Background
00:06:19 2 Leadership
00:07:39 2.1 Public opinion
00:11:24 3 German goals
00:19:07 4 Rivalry with Britain
00:20:36 4.1 Naval race
00:22:52 5 Blank cheque
00:27:31 6 July:  crisis and war
00:33:03 7 Ottoman ally
00:35:42 8 See also
00:37:01 9 Notes
00:37:10 10 Further reading
00:53:12 10.1 Historiography
00:57:55 10.2 Primary sources
01:00:25 11 External links



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Germany entered into World War I on August 1, 1914, when it declared war on Russia. In accordance with its war plan, it ignored Russia and moved first against France–declaring war on August 3 and sending its main armies through Belgium to attack Paris from the north. The German invasion of Belgium caused Britain to declare war on Germany on August 4. Most of the main parties were now at war. In October 1914, Turkey joined the war on Germany's side, becoming part of the Central Powers. Italy, which was allied with Germany and Austria-Hungary before World War I, was neutral in 1914 before switching to the Allied side in May 1915.
Historians have vigorously debated Germany's role. One line of interpretation, promoted by German historian Fritz Fischer in the 1960s, argues that Germany had long desired to dominate Europe politically and economically, and seized the opportunity that unexpectedly opened in July 1914, making her guilty of starting the war. At the opposite end of the moral spectrum, many historians have argued that the war was inadvertent, caused by a series of complex accidents that overburdened the long-standing alliance system with its lock-step mobilization system that no–one could control. A third approach, especially important in recent years, is that Germany saw itself surrounded by increasingly powerful enemies–Russia, France and Britain–who would eventually crush it unless Germany acted defensively with a preemptive strike.