Historydraft LogoHistorydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta
Historydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta

World War 1 - Wrong Information

Time: Saturday Aug 1, 1914

Place: Germany

Details: On 1 August, Wilhelm ordered General Helmuth von Moltke the Younger to "march the whole of the army to the East" after being wrongly informed that the British would remain neutral if France was not attacked. Moltke told the Kaiser that attempting to redeploy a million men was unthinkable, and that making it possible for the French to attack the Germans "in the rear" would prove disastrous. Yet Wilhelm insisted that the German army should not march into Luxembourg until he received a telegram sent by his cousin George V, who made it clear that there had been a misunderstanding. Eventually the Kaiser told Moltke, "Now you can do what you want."

Related

Near

null
The Holocaust-Alexander von Falkenhausen enacted anti-Jewish measures
May, 1940 - Germany
German Empire
Unification of Germany-France mobilized and declared war against German states
Tuesday Jul 19, 1870 - Germany
Flag of Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic-The government defaulted on some payments
1923 - Germany
Anton Ulrich's death
Anton Ulrich's death
Tuesday Mar 27, 1714 - Brunswick
Caroline Birth
Caroline Birth
Tuesday May 17, 1768 - Brunswick

On This Day - 1 August

A mural showing women dressed in traditional Hanfu silk robes, from the Dahuting Tomb of the late Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD)
Imperial China (Qin and Han dynasties)-Huan of Han
Monday Aug 1, 146 - Han dynasty, China
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon-Battle of the Nile
Wednesday Aug 1, 1798 - Aboukir, Egypt
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin-Entering Kazan University
Monday Aug 1, 1887 - Kazan, Russian Empire
First Sino-Japanese War Image
First Sino-Japanese War-War was Officially Declared
Wednesday Aug 1, 1894 - China
W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois-Strivings of the Negro People
Sunday Aug 1, 1897 - Washington D.C., U.S.

1 August 1914

World War 1-Germany entered into World War I
World War 1-Germany entered into World War I
Saturday Aug 1, 1914 - Germany

August 1914

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill-Churchill was tasked with overseeing Britain's naval effort when the First World War began
Aug, 1914 - London, England, United Kingdom
World War 1-Germany entered into World War I
World War 1-Germany entered into World War I
Saturday Aug 1, 1914 - Germany
World War 1-The  battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes
World War 1-The battles of Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes
Aug, 1914 - East Prussia,(Germany that time)
World War 1-France is in the war
World War 1-France is in the war
Monday Aug 3, 1914 - France
World War 1-War in Africa
World War 1-War in Africa
Monday Aug 10, 1914 - South Africa

1914

First Indochina War COLLAGE - image
First Indochina War-Phan Bội Châu was imprisoned
1914 - Vietnam
Josip Broz Tito Image
Josip Broz Tito-Broz was arrested
1914 - Novi Sad, Serbia
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler-To Munich
1914 - Munich, Germany
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco-Rif War
1914 - Morocco
Marie Curie
Marie Curie-The Radium Institute
1914 - Paris, France
<