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The experience of warfare in Britain, 1854–1929: AS Unit 2

The Sarajevo Crisis

Why did it lead Britain to war in 1914?

Mark Rathbone examines the relative significance of the key factors that led Britain to declare war on Germany in 1914. Read this article alongside the one on Russia’s entry to the war, pp. 2–5

Launched in 1906, HMS Dreadnought gave its name to a new class of super-battleship
Peter Newark’s Military Pictures

AQA AS Britain 1902–1918: the impact of new liberalism

AQA A2 British state and people, 1865–1915

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