德国是否需要为一战负责(英文版)

Germany needs responsibility for the war

I think Germany needs to bear the main responsibility for the war.

As early as 134 years ago, the Prussian army entered Paris near Versailles, and in the Palace of Versailles announced to Prussia led to the establishment of the German empire. The king is Prussia, William for the German Emperor, Bismarck as prime minister. The unification of Germany fully realized.

Bismarck realized by force, a rise of emerging powers, including outside are fragile. So he to efforts to stabilize the British, to show goodwill gesture to the British. However, how to deal with the relationship between Russia and neighboring countries is the key to success. Bismarck the flexibility to use diplomacy to Austria and Russia established the complex alliance system, effectively keep the brief peace for Germany.

As a strategic ally, Germany, the Russian are willing to maintain good relations with Germany. But because Germany chose to protect their market, do not let the Russian products into Germany, also is not willing to see Russia's rapid economic development. So, the German-Russian cooperation between the two countries in diplomatic, eventually because of no win-win economic and ended in failure. Finally, the French and Russian alliance, let the Germany on both sides by the enemy.

Germany have the strength to compete with the French and Russian

armies though. But after William S came to power, determined to challenge the British sea power. During the reign of Bismarck, deep understanding of Germany and Britain should not fight, but not the challenge of the British navy strength.

"Britain and Germany should each one minds his own business." However, William S wants and the United Kingdom, France for the colony, directly challenging the "empire of the sun" of the British empire. This also led to the original to take the policy of neutrality in European affairs, is what the British had allied with France against Germany, jointly.

By the end of the nineteenth Century, especially prime minister after the fall of Bismarck, the German Empire gradually in Europe into a serious diplomatic isolation. At the time of the German leaders not only aware of their own the doings to be under attack from all directions, instead of throw the helve after the hatchet, militaristic, through extreme nationalism, to hide the benighted international relations, and prepared by three to one, regardless of their economic power, to expand the arms, had brought the country to the brink of war.

So, German let oneself and the world fall into war.