{"id":3192,"date":"2014-12-13T15:04:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T12:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2014-11-09T15:05:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T12:05:40","slug":"the-arms-race-and-the-role-of-kaiser-wilhelm-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/the-arms-race-and-the-role-of-kaiser-wilhelm-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arms Race and the Role of Kaiser Wilhelm II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3190\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Portrait-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Wilhelm Hohenzollern\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Portrait-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Portrait-100x160.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Portrait-200x321.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Portrait.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/ww1_causes\/Pack2\/01a_Germany_v_Britain-The_Arms_Race.doc\">The Arms Race<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThis worksheet covers both the arms race on land (Russia and France v. Germany) and at sea (Britain v. Germany).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/ww1_causes\/Pack2\/02_Wilhelm%20II.doc\">The Role of Kaiser Wilhelm II<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nImagine you are interviewing Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914.<br \/>\nCome up with a series of questions you would like to ask him.<br \/>\nNow use the internet to produce a \u201cbeyond the grave\u201d interview with the Kaiser.<br \/>\nDo this by researching answers to each of your questions, then getting \u201chim\u201d to answer them\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in the first person, present tense<\/span>\u00a0(ie &#8220;I think that&#8230;&#8221; rather than &#8220;The Kaiser thought that&#8230;&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>This forms part of the newly updated ActiveHistory scheme of work on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/world_war_one\/The_Great_War_Causes.php\">Origins of World War One<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arms Race This worksheet covers both the arms race on land (Russia and France v. Germany) and at sea (Britain v. Germany). The Role of Kaiser Wilhelm II Imagine you are interviewing Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914. Come up with a series of questions you would like to ask him. Now use the internet to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/the-arms-race-and-the-role-of-kaiser-wilhelm-ii\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Pu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}