H119 Tinder

History of World War I

HIS 119
Author

Ian Campbell and Eric Rauchway

Published

September 27, 2024

The German Empire, 1871

The German Reich

Wilhelm II

Europe

ggplot() +
  geom_sf(data = borders_14, fill = "antiquewhite1", color = "burlywood3") +
  geom_sf(data = st_buffer(borders_14, -6000), linewidth = 0.6, fill = NA, color = alpha("burlywood3", 0.4)) +
  geom_sf(data = st_buffer(st_union(st_make_valid(borders_14)), 6000), linewidth = 0.4, fill = NA, color = alpha(c("lightblue"), 0.7)) +
  geom_richtext(data = borders_14,
                mapping = aes(X, Y, label = mylab),
                size = borders_14$siz + 1,
                family = "Lydian",
                fill = NA, 
                color = "chocolate4",
                label.color = NA, 
                nudge_x = borders_14$nx, 
                nudge_y = borders_14$ny, 
                na.rm = TRUE) +
  labs(
    title = "HIS 119---EUROPE AT 1914",
    caption = "Map made using R, ggplot, and sf by Eric Rauchway with data from CShapes."
  ) +
  coord_sf(xlim = disp_win_coord[,'X'], ylim = disp_win_coord[, 'Y'], expand = TRUE) -> p
p

Weltpolitik

Dreadnought, 1906

Triple Entente

p

A spark in the tinder

Encirclement

Blank check, ultimatum; mobilization

p

Why war

Why war, 2