When faced with the question of what roles Britain played in the onset of the First World War, one may immediately say that Britain didn't play a part in the causal events that led to the Great War, and that the only reason she joined was to come to the aid of Belgium, whose neutrality had been broken by the Germans. The following essay disproves that popular theory held by many people still to this …showed first 75 words of 2254 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2254 total…War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999) Mardev, Arthur J. The Anatomy of British Sea Power: A History of British Naval Policy in the Pre-Dreadnought Era, 1880-1905 New York: Octagon Books, 1976. Remak, Joachim. The Origins of World War I: 1871-1914. Illinois: Dryden Press, 1967. Zilliacus, K. "Economic and Social Causes of the War," in The Outbreak of the First World War: Causes and Responsibilities. Ed. Dwight E. Lee, 4th ed. United States: D.C. Heath and Company, 1975.