The World War I Document Archive, Pre - 1914
The World War I Document Archive
Pre - 1914
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Pre-1914 Documents:
Treaties and Documents Relative to the Neutrality of the Netherlands and Belgium
1839-1914
Taken from an appendix to Alexander Fuehr's
The Neutrality of Belgium
(1915)
Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law
16 April 1856.
The Treaty of London
21 June 1867
Granting neutrality to Luxembourg (French translation)
St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War,
of Certain Explosive Projectiles
29 November - 11 December 1868
Timeline of Events
1870 - 1914
The Ems Telegram
1870
Precipitating the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71
The Dual Alliance Between Austria-Hungary and Germany
7 October 1879
Oxford Laws of War on Land
9 September 1880
On the Nature of War
by Helmut Moltke (the Elder)
1880
The Three Emperors' League
18 June 1881
Linking Germany and Austria-Hungary with Russia.
The Triple Alliance
20 May 1882
Joining Italy with the Germany/Austria-Hungary alliance.
(Eight articles in the original French)
See also
expanded version of 1912
The Triple Alliance
20 May 1882
(English translation of the above)
See also
expanded version of 1912
Bismarck and the "Polish Question."
28 January 1886
Speech to the Lower House of the Prussian Parliament
(English translation)
The Reinsurance Treaty
18 June 1887
Bismarck's alliance with Russia
Die Internationale
1888
Translated by Richard S. Levy
Bismarck's Fall from Power
1890
Wilhelm II -- Swearing In New Recruits
23 November 1891
The Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention
18 August 1892
Leading to the Triple Entente
Willy-Nicky Letters
between the Kaiser and the Czar
1894 - 1914
Transcriptions of the original English correspondence.
See also
facsimile of the 1920 print edition
.
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!
Hague Convention
29 July 1899 & other ratification dates
The First 'Open Door Note'
6 September 1899
Bülow's 'Hammer and Anvil' Speech before the Reichstag
11 December 1899
(German original)
Bülow's 'Hammer and Anvil' Speech before the Reichstag
11 December 1899
(English translation)
Kaiser Wilhelm II on German Interests in China
2 July 1900
The ABC Proposal for British Foreign Policy
November 1901
Anglo-Japanese Alliance
30 January 1902
To counter French and Russian designs in the Far East
The Entente Cordiale Between The United Kingdom and France
8 April 1904
Later joined by Russia
The Schlieffen Plan
1905
The First Moroccan Crisis
31 March 1905
Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War
1905
The Anglo-Russian Entente
1907
Proclamation of the Young Turks
1908
The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary
September - October 1908
The
Daily Telegraph
Affair
28 October 1908
The Racconigi Bargain
(Excerpts)
October 1909
Norman Angell's
The Great Illusion
1910
Agadir Crisis: Lloyd George's Mansion House Speech
21 July 1911
Luxembourg Railways Intelligence Report
24 September 1911
(Contains facsimiles of original handwritten documents)
The
Narodna Odbrana
1911
Constitution of the
Black Hand
1911
The Haldane Mission
8 - 12 February 1912
Heinrich Class, "
If I were Kaiser
"
1912
English translation of
Wenn ich Kaiser wär'
.
Amended Version of The Triple Alliance
5 December 1912
(Fifteen articles in the original French).
Amended Version of The Triple Alliance
5 December 1912
(English translation of the above)
Austro-Hungarian / Rumanian Accord
5 February 1913
(In the original French)
President Wilson's Inaugural Address
4 March 1913
The Zabern Affair
1913
British Imperial Connexions to the Arab National Movement
1912-1914
Prince Lichnowsky's Mission to London, Memoirs
1912-1914
The Next War
, by General Friedrich von Bernhardi
1914
World War I Document Archive
Comments, corrections and suggestions are welcome:
Richard Hacken (hacken @ byu.edu)
or Jane Plotke (cd078 @ gwpda.org). .
Last Updated: January 2007.