Throughout the Great War, each nation maintained a set of War Aims they hoped to achieve through the eventual peace conference. These could be quite vague (such as Germany's plan for a European economic union) or very specific (such as France's desire to reclaim AlsaceLorraine).
This video looks at some of the proposals each of the 5 Great Powers hoped to achieve in the war.
Sources:
Max Hastings, Catastrophe
David Stevenson, The History of the First World War
AJP Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe
Paul Hayes, Modern British Foreign Policy
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Germany
4:53 France
6:40 Russia
8:35 AustriaHungary
10:32 Britain
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