This three page undergraduate paper examines The Guns of August, in which Tuchman notes that under Kaiser Wilhelm II, German foreign policy demonstrated a degree of aggressiveness that destabilized Europe and adds that the Kaisers determination to challenge Great Britain for supremacy at sea led to a naval arms race that contributed to increasing mistrust and hostility between the English and the Germans. But she seemed reluctant to focus much attention on Germanys share of responsibility for the war, for assessing blame was not as important to her as analyzing the sequence of diplomatic and mobilization events that led to the outbreak of war.
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