Hace 3 días · Following the Juye Incident of 1 November 1897, in which two German missionaries from the Society of the Divine Word were murdered, Kaiser Wilhelm dispatched the East Asia Squadron to occupy Jiaozhou Bay and its chief port Qingdao on the southern coast of the Shandong peninsula.
- 31,025,468 km² (11,979,000 sq mi)
- Colonial empire
Hace 2 días · After World War I started in July 1914, Hindenburg was recalled to military service and quickly achieved fame on the Eastern Front as the victor of Tannenberg. Subsequently, he oversaw a crushing series of victories against the Russians that made him a national hero and the center of a massive personality cult.
- 1866–1911, 1914–1918
- Independent
- 3, including Oskar
Hace 1 día · Following the devastation of the First World War (1914–1918), Germany was exhausted and sued for peace in desperate circumstances. Awareness of imminent defeat sparked a revolution, the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, formal surrender to the Allies, and the proclamation of the Weimar Republic on 9 November 1918.
19 de sept. de 2023 · While conventional scholars assign the locus of blame on Kaiser Wilhelm II and his military clique, revisionists tend to view the conflict as a result of either a meltdown of the international system or a catastrophic failure of Continental diplomacy.
21 de sept. de 2023 · Dr Alan Sked, review of The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany, (review no. 47) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/47. Date accessed: 17 September, 2023.
Hace 3 días · März 1797 in Berlin; † 9. März 1888 ebenda), aus dem Haus Hohenzollern war von 1861 bis zu seinem Tod König von Preußen und seit der Reichsgründung 1871 erster Deutscher Kaiser. Als zweitgeborener Sohn Friedrich Wilhelms III. wurde er zunächst nicht auf die Aufgaben eines Monarchen vorbereitet, sondern schlug eine militärische Laufbahn ein.