Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1972

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Portnoy, Samuel

Abstract

This paper deals with the Anglo-German naval competition preceding the First World War. The course by which Germany began her policy of naval expansion is examined. Britain's first response to the German challenge was indecisive but after the naval scare of 1909 Britain reacted strongly to preserve her naval supremacy. A period of negotiations then ensued between Britain and Germany. Britain hoped to stop Germany's naval expansion and Germany hoped to render ineffective the Anglo-Fr ench Entente by securing a neutrality pact with Britain. A satisfactory agreement could not be reached and the negotiations failed. As a result of her naval rivalry with Germany Britain increasingly came to view that nation as her most dangerous opponent and solidified her arrangements with France and Russia against Germany.

Extent

105 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

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FADT13489

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