![]() ![]() This potential was greatly helped along by the fact that, politically, Germany’s democracy was much more pliable to the whims of the Kaiser as head of state compared to other democratic European nations. While Germany was comparatively late to the game, they nevertheless possessed an immensely strong industrial and economic base from which to start. Two important hallmarks of global powers at the time were overseas colonies and, perhaps more importantly, a navy capable of enforcing those claims. With the coronation of Kaiser Wilhelm II, in 1890, there had been a desire by the German monarch to form a truly global Empire, the likes of which were possessed by many other world powers at the time, namely France and England. In the years leading up to World War I, Jutland saw perhaps the greatest naval arms race of the modern era. The Build-up to the Battle of Jutland Launch of the HMS Dreadnought in 1906, via Gosportheritage ![]()
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