 Complete the following phrase:  Kirchners Self-Portrait as a Soldier was painted in 1915, a year after the commencement of the First World War WW1. The impetus for Germanys involvement in WW1 was its alliance with Austria-Hungary who declared war on Serbia on the 28th of July 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdid. The German invasion of Belgium in 1914 saw Britain declare war on Germany. The alliance system of WW1 pitted the Centrals Powers, encompassing Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria against the Allied Powers which compromised Russia, France, Great Britain and the United States. Throughout the war non-material and material living standards and civil liberties in Germany were extremely poor. Mary Coxs The First World War and the 