How Did World War 1 End Alliances

The War to End All Wars, a very misleading name, considering the amount of people against each other. Those countries did not fight separately, they were well allied. Alliances are unions formed for mutual benefit, associations made between countries, organizations, or individuals. While many alliances were made public and other countries knew who stood behind who, some were secret affairs. Certain alliances in World War One were an important cause of expanded conflict between nations. Many people know that the start of World War One was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but why is that? Archduke was next in line for the throne of Austria-Hungary, he was a pretty important guy. The Archduke was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Bosnian Serb
The Franco-Russian alliance was also known as the Dual Alliance. It became a secret treaty in 1894. The nucleus of the Triple Alliance came to be when France was in need of support against Germany, and Russia against Austria- Hungary. These three countries strengthened their relationships over time, especially France and Britain. This alliance was very strong and sturdy, its only drawback was that it was not able to prevent war. The war started, at first the only nations were those that were in alliances with other countries, in a way of showing that they were sticking to their word. Soon the Triple alliance started to add more countries to their alliance, they formed the Central forces. The Triple Entente wanted to have more countries on their side and so they brought a few countries in and that was the start of the Allies. This extremely large and bloody conflict could have been kept a small regional affair if countries did not have their alliances as their back-up plan. Most countries had no reason to be in the war at all, they only joined because they felt forced to join because of the people they had signed contracts