https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt Jonathan Brown 5th hour en-us 2019-02-11 16:55:15 UTC 2019-02-20 14:33:43 UTC hello@padlet.com 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/329972103 The president of Germany during World War 1 was Friedrich Wilhelm ll. Wilhelm was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War 1. He gained a reputation as a swaggering militarist through his speechless and ill-advised newspaper interviews...Jonathan Brown]]> 2019-02-11 17:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/329972103 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/329975739 While Wilhelm did not actively seek war, and tried to hold back his generals from mobilizing the German army in the summer of 1914, his verbal outbursts and his open enjoyment of the title of Supreme War lord helped bolster the case of those who blamed him for the conflict...Jonathan Brown ]]> 2019-02-11 17:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/329975739 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/329979682 His role in conduct of the war as well as his responsibility for it's outbreak is still controversial. Some historians maintain that Wilhelm was controlled by his generals, while others argue that he retained considerable political power. In late 1918, he was forced to abdicate. He spent the rest of his life in exile in the Netherlands, where he died at age 82...Jonathan Brown]]> 2019-02-11 17:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/329979682 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/329983582 Wilhelm's father was became Kaiser Friedrich lll of Germany in March 1888. Already ill with terminal throat cancer, he died after a reign of only several months. Wilhelm 
succeeded his father on June 15, 1888, at the age of 29. Within two years of his coronation, Wilhelm broke with Otto von Bismarck, the "Iron Chancellor" who had dominated German politics since the 1960 s....Jonathan Brown]]> 2019-02-11 17:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/329983582 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/329991119 In 1918, the United States' full scale entry into the war, combined with severe German shortages of men and materials from years of attrition - based trench  warfare, led to Germany's military collapse. Wilhelm had hopes of being restored but they came to nothing and he died June 4 1941....Jonathan Brown]]> 2019-02-11 17:34:28 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/329991119 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330877880 Many Germans experienced a sense of bonding that had eluded them since the founding of the empire. Differences of class, religion, and politics seemed to disappear as Germans flocked to their city centres to show their enthusiastic support for the impending conflict. Overwhelmingly, the parties, including the Social Democrats, voted for the war credits....Jonathan Brown

]]> 2019-02-13 16:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330877880 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330882421 The euphoria of the early days masked Germany's dangerous situation. The triple Entente commanded the seas, had more than twice the population of Germany and Austria - Hungary, and had access to the world's natural resources through their empires and close contact with the United States. Germany was immediately blockaded and had to rely on on it's own resources and those of Austria - Hungary and contagious nonbelligerents...Jonathan Brown ]]> 2019-02-13 16:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330882421 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330887788 The Central Powers did have interior lines lines of transit, which was valuable in a two - front war. They also had a unified command structure --- in contrast to the Triple Entente powers, whose rivalries resulted in in three different wars being fought simultaneously with little coordination.]]> 2019-02-13 16:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330887788 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330906197 General Alfred von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff from 1891 - 1906, had recognized Germany's vulnerability in a two - front war and seen the best hope in a overwhelming attack against France through Belgium. If all went according to plan, France's eastern industrial region would be occupied in six to eight weeks and Paris itself surrounded...Jonathan Brown ]]> 2019-02-13 16:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330906197 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330942474 The slow - moving Russians would occupy Prussia's eastern rural provinces, facing only a modest - sized German military force. After France's capitulation following the occupation of it's capital, whole armies would move to the Eastern Front to drive the Russian's out...Jonathan Brown]]> 2019-02-13 17:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330942474 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330945770 Germany hoped to avoid fighting on two fronts by knocking out France before turning to Russia, France's ally. The initial German offensive has some early success, but there were not enough reinforcements immediately available to sustain momentum. The French and British launched a counter - offensive at the Marne and after several days of bitter fighting the Germans retreated....Jonathan Brown]]> 2019-02-13 17:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330945770 908330 https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330948739 2019-02-13 18:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/908330/8kzgggina2gt/wish/330948739