German Navy: A Choice from Two Poisons

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220704.154How to use a DOI?

Keywords

High Seas Fleet; weltpolitik; World War I; German Empire

Abstract

The Anglo-German naval arms race prior to the outbreak of World War I was a struggle between two prominent European empires, the British and the German, for naval superiority. The question though is why Germany would instigate such a resource warfare. In this work, the author approaches the issue from strategic, political, and economical perspectives, and concludes that the decision to build a fleet is linked to population growth and weltpolitik. This paper also aims to illustrate that the German fleet was not a weird power show, but a peaceful yet dangerous solution to the national situation for Germany.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinyang Hu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - German Navy: A Choice from Two Poisons
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 852
EP  - 856
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.154
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.154
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