History Blog #2 Germany 1900 Januray 25

in #history7 years ago (edited)

How about some First World War preparations?


So this guy Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz with a long name and a cool hair style proposed the following:

The German Empire should double its navy by 1917 to 38 battleships,20 large cruisers 45 small cruisers and several torpedo boats.

Why did he want to do this?
At the time there was a Two Power Standard meaning that there were 2 British ships for evrery German ship. He knew that Germanies navy could not overtake the British Empires navy so he wanted the ratio to change to 3:2 instead of it being 2:1.

The other reason Alfred Peter Friedrich von Tirpitz wanted a large navy was so the German Empire could defend its self from aggressors ( the British Empire ) and so the nation could protect its colonies.

Please let me know what you think about the post in the comments.
BTW no post tomorrow.

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Did German make a good decision to get bigger military?

Depends on how you look at it I would say yes and no. Yes because Germany was able to defend its self, but no because they became overconfident in their abilities to win at war. Also who know maybe if they would have not had a large army they would have been attacked.

Also what do you think about it?

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What is the purpose or relevance of the last image? Anyway that man is bearing a symbol significant to the Cabal called the Maltese cross. He was fulfilling his role in pushing the agenda as anyone who is given such positions of power and bearing such symbols would do.

Well I did not want to put a picture of the African colonies map as the last picture and thought that a picture of tribal Africans would be cooler.