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Origins of the 1st world war
1. Triple Alliance
  1. Italy
    1. Agricultural
  2. Austria Hungary
  3. Germany
    1. Bismarck (German chancellor) sets up Alliance to proitect germany 1892
    2. Ruled by Kaiser Wilhem
      1. 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"
      2. Grandson of Queen Victoria
    3. Strongest Army in the world
  4. where 2 or more major powers attack one of the 3.
2. Triple Entiente
  1. Entente Cordiale 1903-4
    1. Britain worried about size of german naval fleet, could hold the balance of power if britain was at battle with france or Russia.
      1. 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
  2. Russia
    1. borrowed money from france to develop railways
    2. Anglo Russian Agreement 1907
      1. France uses its power to influence agreement
        solved several oversea issues like Persia and Tibet
      2. Not Military alliances not designed to encircle Germany but seen this way.
  3. Britain
    1. Splendid Isolation
      1. 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
      2. Relied on Navy
    2. Strongest Navy
      1. needed for trade and communication
        1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance: stopped Russia's expansion, if more than one power attacked alliance initiated
    3. biggest empire
  4. France
    1. Franco Prussian War
      1. Alsace-Lorraine
  5. no alliance all secret agreements (Germany thought it was encirclement)
3. Morocco
  1. crisis 1 1905
    1. Kaiser arrived on a white horse in Tangier parading for Moroccan peace and freedom. 1905
      1. caused a conference in Algeciras,Spain for Morocco's independence where only Austria Hungary, and Morocco supported Germany 1906
        Key: Italy didn't support
    2. -Britain began taking more interest in foreign affairs
      1. France Reassured of Britain's Trust
      2. Entente Cordiale strengthed
        France get joint control with Spain of Morocco's police
    3. Testing the strength of the Entente Cordiale
  2. crisis 2
  3. Few places in Africa not controlled by colonie
4. Bosnian Crisis
  1. Turkish Empire crashes and many small states in the Balkans gain independence
    1. Serbia
      1. Serbia is the leading Slav state aiming to unite all Slavs
Treaty of versailles
1. army restriction
2. loss of land
3. League of Nations
4. Woodrow Wilson
5. George Clemenceau
6. David Lloyd George
Hitler and lead to WW2
Roaring 20s

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