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How far do these sources support the idea that Germany was warlike and aggressive in its foreign policy in the years 1899-1914?
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all the easter rebels needed to do was to provoke the british, and in wartime that would not be difficult. if they succeeded in this basic aim, success of some sort, was guaranteed. discuss
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