trends leading to peace. late 19th century europe
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Trends Leading to
PEACE
Late 19th Century Europe
Late 19th Century Europe
La Belle Epoque
Historian John Keegan:
Europe in the summer of 1914 enjoyed a peaceful productivity so dependent on international exchange and co-operation that belief in the impossibility of general war seemed the most conventional of wisdoms.
International Organizations
• International Telegraph Union (1865)
• International Postal Union (1875)
• International Conference for Promoting Technical Uniformity in Railways (1882)
International Organizations
• International Meteorological Organisation (1873)
• International Radiotelegraph Union (1906)
• International Bureau of Weights and Measures (1875)
• First International Copyright Conventions (1880s)
• First Geneva Convention (1864)
Growth of Common European Culture
• University graduates across Europe shared a body of knowledge
• Tourism became a pastime for the middle classes
One Big Happy Family?
Queen Victoria’s Grandchildren:
• Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany• Queen Sophia of Greece• King George V of Great Britain• Queen Maude of Norway• Tsarina Alexandra of Russia• Queen Marie of Romania• Queen Margaret of Sweden• Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain
Tsar Nicholas II and King George V
Nicky and Georgie
Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II
Willy and Nicky