How Did The Powers Of Europe Form Understandings And Alliances With Each Other
Why did the powers of Europe form understandings and alliances with each other and how did these alliances change the war?
The powers of Europe formed understandings and alliances that ultimately, changed the outcome of World War I. The reasons why they formed were due to the positions of them by the 20th century, how they were aligned by that time, in particular, the triple alliance and entente and how those alliances changed the Great War. This investigation gives an insight to the political viewpoint of the alliances and how that affected the First War between countries of the world, the most important being the power countries of Europe.
The countries of Europe that were considered the great powers were the central, Germany Austria-Hungary, …show more content…
As such, Germany before the 1900s had difficulties and was not even an official country until 1871. Before the 1870s, Germany consisted of independent states trying to be controlled by Prussia, Austria-Hungary and other impending powers. Due to this, the German Confederation came into view that an alliance could be made to make powerful friends, according to Otto Von Bismarck “Austria will remain the only state to whom we continually lose and continually gain… however in co-operation with Austria to put through alterations to the Germanic Confederation in our favour…” (Bismarck to Manteuffel 26 April 1856). This shows that Germany had struggles and considered the idea of an alliance with a powerful nemesis in order to gain stand and opinion in the German Confederation. This was a particular reason in Germany and also was a similar thought in other power countries. However by the start of the early 1900s the triple entente, which is an understanding between countries, was made specifically to oppose the triple alliance as a result of unease among the political government between them which is quoted by Raoul Meyer of the relationship of the triple entente “under a moral obligation to help each other if war should break out” (Crash course, September 12,
The powers of Europe formed understandings and alliances that ultimately, changed the outcome of World War I. The reasons why they formed were due to the positions of them by the 20th century, how they were aligned by that time, in particular, the triple alliance and entente and how those alliances changed the Great War. This investigation gives an insight to the political viewpoint of the alliances and how that affected the First War between countries of the world, the most important being the power countries of Europe.
The countries of Europe that were considered the great powers were the central, Germany Austria-Hungary, …show more content…
As such, Germany before the 1900s had difficulties and was not even an official country until 1871. Before the 1870s, Germany consisted of independent states trying to be controlled by Prussia, Austria-Hungary and other impending powers. Due to this, the German Confederation came into view that an alliance could be made to make powerful friends, according to Otto Von Bismarck “Austria will remain the only state to whom we continually lose and continually gain… however in co-operation with Austria to put through alterations to the Germanic Confederation in our favour…” (Bismarck to Manteuffel 26 April 1856). This shows that Germany had struggles and considered the idea of an alliance with a powerful nemesis in order to gain stand and opinion in the German Confederation. This was a particular reason in Germany and also was a similar thought in other power countries. However by the start of the early 1900s the triple entente, which is an understanding between countries, was made specifically to oppose the triple alliance as a result of unease among the political government between them which is quoted by Raoul Meyer of the relationship of the triple entente “under a moral obligation to help each other if war should break out” (Crash course, September 12,