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New Imperialism and how it Contributed to the Origins of WWI

Posted June 18th, 2012 at 07:38 PM by jttwong

Tags france, germany, moroccan crises, new imperialism, origins of world war one

Personally speaking, I have always believed that New Imperialism played a large role in the origins of WWI. It created tensions amongst the European powers that was just shimmer under the surface. Because of this, when looking at the origins of the Great War, it would unwise to neglect new imperialism’s impact

(Disclaimer: this article purely focuses on the political causes of the First World War without mention of the ideological causes such as nationalism)

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jttwong

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Posted in European History, War and Military History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology

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The totally interesting and 100% accurate history of Berlin Part II

Posted February 19th, 2012 at 03:27 AM by Stephy

Tags berlin, brandenburg, france, germany, prussia

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Posted in European History, War and Military History

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Iraq-Iran war and Iraq's arms suppliers (1973-1990)

Posted October 28th, 2011 at 02:19 AM by Iraq Bruin
Updated October 28th, 2011 at 02:24 AM by Iraq Bruin

Tags china, france, iraq, ussr

SIPRI Publications :

Read the PDF, it is very informative, would you think you would be surprised by the countries involved ? Especially with Iraq as the data-sets show in the graphs posted below.

SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, Iraq 1973 [wikipedia]

USSR, Warsaw Pact, and China account for more than 80% between 1973 and 1990 (the year the embargo against Iraq started after invading Kuwait on August, 2nd, 1990)

I have generated data from...

Iraq Bruin

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Posted in Middle Eastern and African History, War and Military History

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