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CAUSES OF WW/NOT JUST ALLIANCES

• MAIN REASON:
• ALLIANCE SYSTEM PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN CAUSING THE OUT BREAK OF WW1
• THE ALLIANCES WOULD NOT OF CAUSED WW1 ON THEIR OWN!!!!!!!!!

KAISER WILHELM 2 and WELTPOLITIK

• 1888-1914
• 1888 WILHELM became KAISER of GERMANY.
• GERMANY was in an era of increasing MILITARISM.
• EUROPEAN COUNTRIES BECAME INCREASINGLY WARY OF GERMANY because of its growth.
• GERMANY...
• POPULATION INCREASED
• HIGH INDUSTRIAL CAPACITY
• INDUSTRAI PRODUCTION WAS HIGH

WELTPOLITIK

• WILHELM'S foreign policy
• WORLD POLICY
• AIM=ensure Germany was a powerful militarily and diplomatically as she was economically.
• This all involved competition with Britain and France over ships and armies
• TENSION with BRITAIN and FRANCE over MOROCCO in North Africa

The Moroccan Crises 1905-1911

• 1904 Britain and France signed ENTENTE CORDIALE
• FRANCE agreed BRITAIN should have a free hand in EGYPT/SUDAN in the north east of Africa.
• BRITAIN agreed that FRANCE should have a free hand in north-east