The World War I Document Archive, 1914
The World War I Document Archive
1914
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1914 Documents:
British Official Documents on the Origins of the War
Multi-volume set ed. by G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley
Vol. I,
The End of British Isolation
: 1897 - 1903,
University of Toronto Digital Collections
Vol. XI,
The Outbreak of War
: June 28 - August 4 1914,
Dual Frame version
;
Standard version
Major Resource!
Die Österreichisch-Ungarischen Dokumente zum Kriegsausbruch
Austro-Hungarian Documents on the Outbreak of War
2 July 1914 - 27 August 1914
(German originals)
General Friedrich von Bernhardi,
The Next War
English translation published in 1914
The French Yellow Book
1913-1914
The Belgian Grey Book
1914
The German White Book
1914
The Russian Orange Book
1914
The Serbian Blue Book
1914
The Austro-Hungarian Red Book
1914-1915
Prince Lichnowsky's Mission to London, Memoirs
1912-1914
Willy-Nicky Letters
between the Kaiser and the Czar
1894 - 1914 (English translations -- including introduction and timeline)
The Tampico Incident
20 April 1914
Colonel House's Report to President Wilson
May 1914
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
28 June 1914 - As related by Borijove Jevtic, one of the leaders of the
Narodna Odbrana
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
28 June 1914 - As related by his bodyguard
See also the
Sarajevo articl
e by Micheal Shackelford
German Dispatches and the Kaiser's Annotations
June-July 1914
Autograph Letter of Franz Joseph to the Kaiser
2 July 1914
The 'Blank Check'
6 July 1914 - Germany's assurance of support to Austria-Hungary
The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia
23 July 1914 (German original)
The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia
23 July 1914 (English translation)
Russian Memorandum of Advice to Serbia
24 July 1914
The Serbian Response to the Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum
25 July 1914 (French original)
The Serbian Response to the Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum
25 July 1914 (English translation)
Wilhelm II's Intransigence
26 July 1914
The Pledge Plan
28 July 1914
The Austro-Hungarian Declaration of War on Serbia
28 July 1914
The "Willy-Nicky" Telegrams
29 July - 1 August 1914
Sir Edward Grey's Indecisiveness
31 July 1914
Prince Lichownowsky's Reply to Sir Edward Gray
July 1914
Wilhelm II's Account of Events
July 1914
Wilhelm II's War Speeches
July - August 1914
The German Declaration of War on Russia
1 August 1914
The Treaty of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey
2 August 1914
Avalon project copy of the same treaty
The German Request for Free Passage Through Belgium
2 August 1914
The Belgian Refusal of Free Passage
3 August 1914
The Italian Declaration of Neutrality
3 August 1914
Sir Edward Grey's Speech Before Parliament
3 August 1914
Origin of the Term "A Scrap of Paper"
4 August 1914
The Imperial Chancellor Defends the Invasion of Belgium
4 August 1914
King Albert I of the Belgians' Speech to the Belgian Parliament
4 August 1914
President Poincaré's War Message
4 August 1914
Great Britain Declares War on Germany
4 August 1914 - as reported in the
Daily Mirror
Clemenceau Calls France to Arms
5 August 1914
Telegram from Wilhelm II to President Wilson, August 10, 1914
10 August 1914
Secretary of State Bryan Opposes Loans to Belligerents
10 August 1914
The British Defense of the Realm Consolidation Act
12 August 1914
The Fall of Liège
11 - 15 August 1914
Japanese Ultimatum to Germany
15 August 1914
Franz Josef's Orders to the Armed Forces,
16 August 1914
President Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality
19 August 1914
The Fall of Brussels
20 - 21 August 1914
The Burning of Louvain
26 August 1914
Sea Fighting off Helgoland
28 August 1914
The Belgian Grey Book: Diplomatic Correspondence Respecting the War
24 July - 29 August 1914
Marshall Joffre's Report on the Marne
August - September 1914
Abandonment of Paris
3 September 1914
The Triple Entente Declaration on No Separate Peace
4 September 1914
The US Statement on the Status of Armed Merchant Vessels,
19 September 1914
U-9 Submarine Attack
22 September 1914
Trench Warfare Begins on the Aisne
28 September 1914
The
London Times
on Belgian Neutrality
30 September 1914
An die Kulturwelt
(Manifesto signed by 93 German Intellectuals)
Alternate copy with fewer signatures
.
4 October 1914 (German original)
Manifesto of the 93 German Intellectuals
4 October 1914 (English translation)
War on the Eastern Front: The Battle of Wirballen,
4 - 8 October 1914
Erklärung der Hochschullehrer des Deutschen Reiches
23 October 1914 (German original)
Erklärung der Hochschullehrer des Deutschen Reiches
23 October 1914 (German facsimile with synoptic French translation - in a PDF file)
Erklärung der Hochschullehrer des Deutschen Reiches
23 October 1914 (German transcription)
Declaration of Professors of the German Reich
23 October 1914 (English translation)
First Battle of Ypres
31 October - 17 November 1914
Cruise and Destruction of the
Emden
2 August - 9 November 1914
Final Letters of Carl Lody
5 November 1914 - Prior to his execution as a German spy
Letter Concerning William Jennings Bryan's Opinion of the Great War
13 November 1914
Graf von Spee's Report
November 1914
Giolitti's Justification of Italian Neutrality
5 December 1914
Brougham's Memorandum of Interview with President Wilson
14 December 1914
The German Occupation of Luxembourg
1914-1918 (as documented in the original French and German-language dispatches)
The
Hasslied
1914
Failings of the Russian Army Medical Service
1914
Kitchener's Address to the Troops
1914
U.S. Army Order of Battle
1914
The Political Development of US Neutrality Policy
1914 - 1915 - Discussions between President Wilson & Secretaries Bryan and Lansing
U.S. Policy on War Loans to Belligerents
1914 - 1915
U.S. Protests Against Maritime Warfare
1914 - 1915
German Army Groups on the Western Front
1914 - 1919
German Army Groups on the Eastern Front
1914 - 1919
World War I Document Archive
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Richard Hacken (hacken @ byu.edu)
or Jane Plotke (cd078 @ gwpda.org). .
Last Updated: December 2006.
