International Relations

International Relations

1. Alliances

   • Friendship
   • Helping eachother
   • Working togther
   • Could cause you to have to go into a war situation
   • Cause rivalry
   • System
     • Triple Alliane
       • Germany
         • 1879 G & A-H signed the Dual Alliance
           • If attacked by R they would support each other
           • Became known as Central Powers
       • Austria- Hungary
       • Italy
         • 1882 became Triple Alliance
           • I &G aid each other if attacked by France
         • Feared the British Navy
     • Triple Entente
       • Britain
         • 1904 signed the Dual Entente
           • Became known as the Entente Cordiale
             • Settled differences between two countries
       • Russia
         • 1894 F & R signed alliance
         • Needed loans from F
       • France
         • Wanted ally against G

2. Great Powers

   • Britain
     • Followed policy of splendid isolation
     • British empire covered nearly 25% of the world
     • Most powerful navy in the world
     • Most industrial developed nation
     • Britain moved away from isolation due to increasing threats from German Navy
   • France
     • Revenge on Germany
     • Wished to expand its empire
   • Russia
     • Biggest of six powers
     • Backward in terms of industrial development
   • Germany
   • Austria- Hungry
   • Italy

3. Causes of world war one

   • MAIN
     • Militarism
     • Alliances
     • Imperialism
     • Nationalism

4. Militarism

   • Strong Navy
     • Btitain was an island
     • It needed a Navy to protect its coastline
     • To protect vast overseas empire
     • Relied on trade from other nations
   • Effects
     • Threatened by G
     • Relations got worse
     • Look for alliances
     • British ships would patrol the north sea if war broke out