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In 1900, the British had a 3.7:1 tonnage advantage over Germany; in 1910, the ratio was 2.3:1 and in 1914, it reached 2.1:1. Ferguson argues: "So decisive was the British victory in the naval arms race that it is hard to regard it as in any meaningful sense a cause of the First World War."
France held off until 1 December 1914, when they finally published their Yellow Book. [3] Other combatants in the war published similar books: the Blue Book of Britain, [4] the Orange Book of Russia, [4] [5] the Yellow Book of France, [6] and the Austro-Hungarian Red Book, the Belgian Grey Book, and the Serbian Blue Book. [7]
In 1914 the war was so unexpected that no one had formulated long-term goals. An ad-hoc meeting of the French and British ambassadors with the Russian Foreign Minister in early September led to a statement of war aims that was not official, but did represent ideas circulating among diplomats in St. Petersburg, Paris, and London, as well as the secondary allies of Belgium, Serbia, and Montenegro.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
The complexity of the conflict is mostly obscured by these oversimplifications. [1] George Kennan referred to the war as the "seminal catastrophe of the 20th century". [2] Historian Heather Jones argues that the historiography has been reinvigorated by a cultural turn in the 21st century.
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The Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires, [1] [notes 1] were one of the two main coalitions that fought in World War I (1914–1918). It consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria; this was also known as the Quadruple Alliance.