Does /his/ want to look over a WWI college paper from america

Sure. Why didn't you post it in the first place?

its not finished but here

While the First World War gets recognition in recent years with the past few years being the 100th anniversary of many important events during the war and more modern pop culture references to The Great War there are many eyes from around the world fixed on the time period. From our vantage point in the modern era, we can see that the dynastic rulers of Europe were not able to control the will of nationalism. The fear of nationalism is what prompted the concert of Europe to try turn back the clock to a time before napoleon and nationalism to go back to an era of dynastic rulers in Europe with large multicultural empires rather than smaller “nations”. It is because of these nationalist passions that the European monarchs did not have control over was the primary cause of the First World War. The power had in effect, been usurped from the dynastic monarchs and given to nationalists like Hindenburg and Ludendorff whose decisions and power could rival, and even exceed that of the Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II. National interests would soon act to undermine the principles of the concert of Europe as the events of the July Crisis unfolded and the eventual start of the First World War started and broke the stability that it promised. Europe’s monarchs could not control nationalism and by the time they understood this fact, there was nothing in their power to stop the consequences from unfolding, not just in Germany but all across Europe, nationalism was on the rise.

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When looking at the First World War, one must not look at the July Crisis first but rather the events occurring 100 years before at the Concert of Europe. The Concert of Europe wanted to turn the clock back on time and undo the influence of Napoleon and the birth of nationalism in Europe. This Concert of Europe promised to guarantee stability in Europe and make sure nationalist influence could never take hold in Europe again. This however was not a permanent solution and as we now know did not spare Europe the influence of nationalism forever as for nationalism would once again be on the rise when Germans called for unification and again when Germany was united by Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck had used nationalism as a vehicle to push Prussian conservative values. Under Bismarck the German empire underwent a period of industrial growth and military preparation, what some might call an arms race that would last throughout serving as Germanys Imperial Chancellor from 1871 to 1890. This preparation was in part a term that Bismarck called “balance of power”. Other balances of power that Bismarck implemented include the forming of the triple alliance. Towards the turn of the century the Schlieffen plan was devised by the request of Wilhelm II and created by the German Chief of Staff Alfred von Schlieffen.

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When looking at the other powers of the triple alliance, one that stands out for being a primary cause of the First World War would be Austria-Hungary and their conflict with the Serbs. Both of these countries had many nationalist influences that lead to the assassination of arch duke Franz Ferdinand. It was within Serbia’s national interests to promote instability in Austria-Hungary due to Franz Ferdinand’s intent to give the Slavs in Austria-Hungary. If Slavs in Austria-Hungary had gotten “trialism” as Franz Ferdinand has intended, which would have given Slavs in the empire more of a voice, similar to how Hungarians were given more voice with “dualism”. Most of the motivation of why Serbian nationalists did not like the concept of Slavs in Austria-Hungary getting more autonomy and more of a voice in the empire is because the Slavs, who were about 50% of the population getting a voice in the empire would pacify them and wouldn’t make the Slavs in Austria-Hungary break away from the empire. The Serbian nationalists had a dream of a Greater Serbia that would encompass most of the southern Slavic regions of Europe, parts that were controlled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Thought the means of “hybrid warfare” Serbian nationalists promoted instability in the Slavic regions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The burden of who was responsible for the assassination was argued between whether it was just a single fanatic or whether this was an act of “hybrid warfare” by the Serbian nation against Austria-Hungary.

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Nationalist sediment is to blame when considering Austria-Hungary perceived the Serbian nation to be responsible for supporting and encouraging Serbian nationalism in Slavic regions of Austria-Hungary. This idea of Serbia promoting Serbian nationalism abroad is part of a greater concept of Pan-Slavism, which is one of the reasons Russia, being an empire of Slavs, gets involved in the conflict between Austria-Hungary and eventually into conflict with Germany as well. Pan-Slavism is the advocacy of the union of all Slavs or all Slavic peoples in one political organization, a nationalist ideology that Russia had a dominant and self-serving role in, with them being the largest and most powerful of Europe’s Slavic countries. Russia was also opposed to the idea of “trialism” in Austria-Hungary for similar reasons to why the Serbians wanted influence over the Slavs under Austro-Hungarian rule.

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>>1797601
Not an expert by any means but this seems like complete rubbish to me. Reducing all of world war 1 into 'monarchs couldn't control nationalism' just seems wrong. What about the democracies of the time? What about the monarchs that actively used nationalism to their advantage? What about all the many various other causes of the war? Also it's very poor writing, repetitive and a bit jumbled.

>tfw muh schleiffen plan doesn't work

By the time of the “July Crisis” it is apparent that war is going to break out, however from the perspective of telegrams between Wilhelm II and Nicholas II it seems as if they wanted to do everything in their power to prevent the outbreak of war between their two countries and their allies. As Nicholas II of Russia states to Wilhelm II of Germany “Our long proved friendship must succeed, with God’s help, in avoiding bloodshed” (Neiberg 2006). From this excerpt of the “Willy-Nicky Telegrams” we see that Nicholas II was not intent on war with Germany. History tells a different story however when Germany declared war on Russia on August 1st, 1914. Much of the reasons for why Germany was forced to declare war on Russia even though their monarchs were family has to do with the limited time constraints that the Schlieffen plan allowed for. With a shelf life of only about 1916, it was now or never for Germany to be able to free itself from being surrounded by the triple entente, would a plan that German nationalists at the time thought work just as intended without the need of fighting a two front war. A two front war was seen as something that Germany could not handle and the Schlieffen plan was devised to try to avoid a two front war. This national interest of preventing a two front war with the triple entente and insuring that Germany would not be surrounded by the triple entente. From the “Willy-Nicky Telegrams” it seems as if the dynastic rulers of Germany and Russia did not want war with each other but national interests prevailed and by the time Wilhelm II or Nicholas II realized that they couldn’t control it, it was too late.

>>1797620
we hardly talked about the democracy since they didnt play a big role in starting the war

>>1797620
They tried to use nationalism but they let it get out of control and that begins the start of WWI

>see pan-slavshitism and russia shilling it for self serving reasons

Reminder that in this class we are taught that the nationalists aren't the "bad guys" and are also in line with classic liberals (what might be referred to as libertarians now a day) they are "the good guys" the bad guys are Austria-Hungary and their multiculturalism

>>1797657
>>1797635

Where do you go to school mate, in America it is taught as a result of imperialism and nationalism with the imperial powers being the "bad guys"

>>1797678
america but we learn that multiculturalism in austria-hungary was the cause of WWI, we even are tough that germany was not the cause but gets a lot of false blame put on them. The "bad guys" never colonized

>>1797686
That is a weird fucking take on things. What state do you go to school in?

>>1797694
Wisconsin

>>1797657
We are also taught that a lot of the monarchs in europe are related to each other and them themselves didn't want war but they abused trying to use nationalism for their own gain and it got out of their control

>>1797610
>dream of a Greater Serbia
As with every other European country who wanted to unify and/or liberate it's people from foreign rule. I think this term today carries many different meanings from it's original one which was the product of it's time.
>Thought the means of “hybrid warfare” Serbian nationalists promoted instability
I suggest you do more research about Serbia from 1835-1912. In 1911 Serbia had a population of barely 3 million, and was operating as a protectorate of Austria-Hungary from 1881 to 1903. Consider that Bosnia was occupied by A-H from 1878, and was annexed by it in 1908 while Turkey was in a state of unrest.
You might want to the following (in chronological order):
Herzegovina Uprising, Treaty of San Stefano, Congress of Berlin, Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881(Secret convention), The Belgrade-Nis railroad (if you want, i'll clarify more about this tomorrow, as English sources are hard to find), Serbo-Bulgarian war (as a proxy war between A-H and Russia), the autism and assassination of the Serbian king in 1903 by the Black hand, the Pig War 1906 (this one is crucial, reading the wikipedia article is a good start), Bosnian crisis, The Black and White hands (Both opposed secret factions within the Serbian military), and the suspicious trial and execution of the leaders of the Black hand (Salonika trial (spring 1917))

why didn't you just paste it into a single pastebin link with paragraphs

Ugh, just fuck off nobody wants to proof read your shitty homework essay

>>1797898
also, I'm pretty sure if your teacher funnels this through a plagiarism detector it will find it on this thread lmfao

>>1797898
Not OP, but how about you fuck off with your bitching? You sound like a woman.

>>1797908
Hello OP

>>1797698
this is probably the most German state in the united states. Germany was totally at fault in WW1, Austria did not even care about Franz Ferdinand, they were coerced by Germany to raise a fuss about it, so that Germany had an excuse to start shit with the major powers. A war was coming and Germany was at the center of it all.

>>1797906
kek

>>1797927
>muh germany caused wwi
pleb understanding of wwi detected

>>1797927
The professor isn't of any German decent at all

>>1797927
Germany could be the the Great Power that wanted a total war the most, but it certainly wasn't the only one that benefitted from one. Painting the Second Reich as the "bad guys" is anglo propaganda tier

>>1797906
its a very rough draft, a lot of shit in is subject to change so it most likely wont

>>1797678
The fuck are you smoking mate? American school teach there were no good guys in ww1

Bump for redpilling sheeple on WWI about anti German propaganda