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Wilhelm with his grandmother, Queen Victoria

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When Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert was born on January 27, 1859 in Berlin, Germany. His father was Prince Frederick William of Germany and his mother was the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria or Britain. Wilhelm was born with birth defects in his left arm that limited him. He was embarrassed with this deformity throughout his whole life and tried the best he could to hide it from the public. His mother implemented a liberal education and a proud spirit towards England.

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This is Wilhelm as a student at the University of Bonn.

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For high school Wilhelm attended the Kassel Gymnasium and for college he attended University of Bonn in Germany. Here he got a military education to prepare him for his heir of Germany. In 1881 he married Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Together they had 7 children. Later, in 1888, the kaiser died leaving Wilhelm's father at the throne. Unfortunately, a couple months later the kaiser died of throat cancer, leaving Wilhelm in charge of Germany at the age of 29.

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Picture of Wilhelm II in WW1 with hat that indicates he's German

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In 1890, Wilhelm took Otto Von Bismarck out of his job as chancellor and appointed one of his own men. The reason for this was because Wilhelm wanted to start a course of action called the "New Course." This idea would make civil servants the chancellors instead of statesmen. In 1908, Wilhelm went on an interview for a London Newspaper company and insulted the British calling them "mad". In 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand got assassinated by a Bosnian terrorist group, this is what really set things off for Kaiser Wilhelm. Since Germany was in an alliance with Austria-Hungary, they sent them a "blank cheque" in support for what attacks they might seize on Bosnia. German troops also mobilized at the border of Bosnia. When Austria-Hungarian leaders decided to give Serbia an ultimatum that if they did not fulfill would, inconsequence, start a war. So when Serbia didn't accept the demands of the ultimatum the war broke out between Austria-Hungary and Germany against Serbia and their alliances, Russia, France, and Britain.   Wilhelm said in August of 1914, "You will regret this, gentlemen"

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Picture of Wilhelm II and his second wife, Hermine Russ in 1922.

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After this event the kaiser didn't give much help and leadership to the war contributions. He gave most of the work to the lead generals and let them control everything. In autumn of 1918 he realized they could not win this war. He was later forced to leave his position after months of trying to stay for as long as he could. He then moved to the Netherlands a day after his abdication. Two years later one of his sons committed suicide and his first wife died, but two years after that he got married to Hermine Russ. The Allies tried to blame the war on Wilhelm II and punish him, but the Queen of the Netherlands wouldn't let him be repatriated. In the 1930's, when Adolf Hitler rose to fame, he stated that he hated Wilhelm II and partially blamed him for the defeat of Germans in WW1. On June 4, 1941, Wilhelm died in his home in the Netherlands at age 82

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I chose this topic because I knew there would be a decent amount of information on him and how he helped start the war. I knew that he was a Kaiser for Germany during WW1 but that was it. I learned how he helped start the war and his whole life overview and what he did for Germany in the beginning of WW1. I didn't know that he was not a good leader during the war and that he let his generals and commanders do everything and kind of just laid back and watched. I liked using the timeline template because I could organize his life and stop during major parts to make another timeline topic.