Tirpitz Plan
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The Tirpitz Plan, formulated by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, was Germany's strategic aim to build the second largest navy in the world after the United Kingdom, thereby advancing itself as a world power. The British saw it not only as a challenge to its naval supremacy, but as a threat to its national survival (since the island of Britain was far from self-sufficient in food, and dependent on colonial resources); they responded in kind, sparking off an arms race. Germany responded to the plan with the Fleet Acts, which led to greater naval development.
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- German battleship Tirpitz
- Dreadnought (book)
- Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
- Fleet in Being
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