The War Aims of Each Nation in WW1 (Part 1)

Throughout the Great War, each nation maintained a set of War Aims they hoped to achieve through the eventual peace conference. These could be quite vague (such as Germany's plan for a European economic union) or very specific (such as France's desire to reclaim Alsace-Lorraine). This video looks at some of the proposals each of the 5 Great Powers hoped to achieve in the war. Sources: Max Hastings, Catastrophe David Stevenson, The History of the First World War AJP Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe Paul Hayes, Modern British Foreign Policy Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:55 Germany 4:53 France 6:40 Russia 8:35 Austria-Hungary 10:32 Britain #History, #WW1, #Britain