Kaiser Wilhelm II
Prussian wartime ruler
Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last German emperor and king of Prussia, reigning from 1888 until his abdication in 1918 at the end of World War I.
His aggressive foreign policy, naval buildup, and erratic diplomacy contributed to the tensions that led to the war.
The term sometimes appears in historical discussions of European militarism and the collapse of monarchies: Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to the Netherlands after Germany's defeat.
- abdicationFormal surrender of power
- sabre-rattlingThreatening military action loudly
- monarchHereditary supreme ruler
- Hohenzollern dynastyGermanic royal bloodline
- divine rightGod-granted ruling authority
blank check · emperor · German Empire · armistice · Central Powers · expansionism · colonialism · propaganda · industrialization · hubris · mustache · withered arm · Tsar Nicholas II · shooting party · militarism · Treaty of Versailles · war guilt · exile
- royaltyking, queen, prince, princess, kings
- World War Itrenches, trench warfare, eastern front, Western Front, soldiers
- MonarchsAugustus, Charlemagne, Constantine, Elizabeth I, Genghis Khan
- German HistoryNazi, Prussia, Saxony, Reichstag, Napoleonic Wars
- WWI militarytrenches, ANZAC, trench warfare, Tommies, Western Front
- 19th Century MonarchsQueen Victoria, Napoleon III, Franz Joseph I, Wilhelm II, Edward VII
Kaiser Wilhelm IIWoodrow Wilson
Twenty-eighth American president
Abraham Lincoln · Thomas Jefferson · Franklin D. Roosevelt · parliamentary leader · republic
Kaiser Wilhelm IIWoodrow Wilson
Twenty-eighth American president
Mahatma Gandhi · King George V · peacemaker · Dwight D. Eisenhower · Calvin Coolidge
Kaiser Wilhelm IIMahatma Gandhi
pacifist · diplomat · peacemaker · dove · conciliator