The Road to The Great War: The Kaiser’s Blank Cheque (TRIH ep 470, part 2)
1914 · Resource
This episode examines the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Austria-Hungary's preparations for action against Serbia. Holland and Sandbrook trace how Emperor Franz Joseph's appeal reached Kaiser Wilhelm II and how German leaders, amid holidays and limited briefing, offered what became the infamous "blank cheque" of support.
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- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)