The Berlin-Baghdad Railway as a cause of World War I.

Abstract

The Baghdad Railway was a project grand in conception and sweeping in scope. At first a modest effort in north-eastern Anatolia, it soon captured the enthusiasm of important men in German and Austrian financial, industrial, and political circles. This growing interest of Germany, by a sort of political third law of motion, engendered an equal and opposite reaction in Russia, France, and England. In this paper I trace the history of the Baghdad Railway from its conception in 1888 to the beginning of World War I. I will show how important the Railway was in the political, economic, and diplomatic events which led up to the First World War.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA138432

Entities

People

  • A. P. Maloney

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Economic Development
  • Employment
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • Information Science
  • International Organizations
  • Management Personnel
  • Materials
  • Minority Groups
  • Money
  • New York
  • Persian Gulf
  • Statistics
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.