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history
- Origins of the 1st world war
- Triple Alliance
- Italy
- Agricultural
- Austria Hungary
- Germany
- Bismarck (German
chancellor) sets up Alliance
to proitect germany 1892
- Ruled by Kaiser Wilhem
- Kaisers Foreign Policy
- "Weltpolitik" : World Politics
- Envious of British sets out to
give GErmany "a place in the
sun"
- Habit of Dramatic Gestures
"international Limelight"
- Grandson of
Queen Victoria
- Strongest Army in the world
- where 2 or more
major powers
attack one of the 3.
- Triple Entiente
- Entente Cordiale 1903-4
- Britain worried about size of german naval fleet,
could hold the balance of power if britain was at
battle with france or Russia.
- Germany wouldn't ally Britain or France so
Britain and France cleared problems and signed a
"friendly agreement" over Egypt and Morocco
(colonial issue resolved still in isolation)
- Three power Standard: Britains
navy had to be as large as the
next three largest fleets
- Russia
- borrowed money
from france to develop
railways
- Anglo Russian Agreement 1907
- France uses its power
to influence agreement
- solved several oversea
issues like Persia and Tibet
- Not Military alliances not
designed to encircle Germany
but seen this way.
- Britain
- Splendid Isolation
- No one power can
take over europe
- Natural ally is Germany
- 1898 Germany got a Navy even
though their land-locked
- 1899 Boer war rebellion made
everyone sympathise with boers
and kaiser openly brung his
opinion
- Relied on Navy
- Strongest Navy
- needed for trade
and
communication
- 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance:
stopped Russia's expansion, if
more than one power attacked
alliance initiated
- biggest empire
- France
- Franco Prussian War
- Alsace-Lorraine
- no alliance all secret agreements
(Germany thought it was
encirclement)
- Morocco
- crisis 1 1905
- Kaiser arrived on a white
horse in Tangier parading for
Moroccan peace and freedom. 1905
- caused a conference in Algeciras,Spain for
Morocco's independence where only Austria
Hungary, and Morocco supported Germany 1906
- Key: Italy didn't support
- -Britain began taking more
interest in foreign affairs
- France Reassured of Britain's Trust
- Entente Cordiale strengthed
- France get joint control with
Spain of Morocco's police
- Testing the strength of
the Entente Cordiale
- crisis 2
- Few places in Africa not
controlled by colonie
- Bosnian Crisis
- Turkish Empire crashes and many
small states in the Balkans gain
independence
- Serbia
- Serbia is the leading Slav state aiming to
unite all Slavs
- Treaty of versailles
- army restriction
- loss of land
- League of Nations
- Woodrow Wilson
- George Clemenceau
- David Lloyd George
- Hitler and lead to WW2
- Roaring 20s