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Wilhelmine Era: Kaiser Wilhelm II and German Imperialism

Explore the influential Wilhelmine Era with Kaiser Wilhelm II, German colonies in Africa, the Boer War, Admiral Tirpitz, and the Schlieffen Plan. Learn about key figures, monuments, and events shaping Imperial Germany.

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Wilhelmine Era: Kaiser Wilhelm II and German Imperialism

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  1. The Wilhelmine EraHistory 323 / Feb. 25, 2013

  2. The Congress of Berlin, 1878

  3. German colonies in Africa: Togo, Cameroon,Southwest Africa, Tanganyika

  4. Wilhelm II(1859-1941; r. 1890-1918)

  5. Paul Krugerand the Boer War(click here for the text of the “Kruger Telegram,” sent by Wilhelm II to Kruger on Jan. 3, 1896)

  6. Wilhelm II delivers his “Hun speech,” July 1900(click here for a newspaper account of his comments)

  7. Admiral Alfred (von) TirpitzState Secretary of the Imperial Naval Office,1897-1916

  8. HMS Dreadnought (1906)

  9. The Panther, the ship that sailed into Agadir

  10. The Kiel Canal (completed 1895)

  11. Route of the Kiel Canal(labeled in blue as the “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”)

  12. The Schlieffen Plan(introduced 1905)

  13. Heinrich von Treitschke(1834-1896)

  14. The Wilhelm I statue at the “Deutsches Eck,” Koblenz

  15. The Bismarck memorial, Berlin

  16. The Bismarck memorial, Hamburg(completed 1906)

  17. The Battle of the Nations monument, Leipzig(completed 1913)

  18. Inside the Leipzig monument

  19. Navy League postcard

  20. Heinrich Class(1868-1953)President of thePan-German League,1908-1939Author, If I were the Kaiser (1912)

  21. Friedrich Nietzsche(1844-1900)Major BooksThe Birth of Tragedy (1872)The Gay Science (1882)Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)Beyond Good and Evil (1886)The Genealogy of Morals (1887)

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