alliance went to war‚ the other countries would have to help the country that had gone to war. At this point‚ there were two major alliances. The first consisted of Germany‚ Austro-Hungary and Italy‚ named the Triple Alliance. The other‚ made up of Britain‚ France and Russia‚ was named the Triple Entente. As these alliances were formed‚ there became immediate friction between the two alliances‚ as each one tried to overpower the other. 2. Imperialism: At that time‚ Kaiser‚ as well as the rest of Germany
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the start of World War II in 1939‚ and the First World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the world ’s great powers‚ which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom‚ France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally the Triple Alliance of Germany‚ Austria-Hungary and Italy; but‚ as Austria–Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement; Italy did not enter into the war). These alliances both reorganized (Italy fought
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World War I began because of many events that got countries heated and upset. Some events that caused World War I to happen were nationalism‚ imperialism‚ militarism‚ and the Alliance System. Nationalism was a occurring problem in the 1870s‚ Nationalism encouraged unity but it also created mistrust and a rivalry between nations. The next because of the war was imperialism. Rivalries expanded among powerful nations such as Britain‚ France‚ Germany‚ Italy‚ and Russia between the years of 1870-1914
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Austria-Hungarian heir. Despite it not going quite according to plan‚ the Archduke was still killed and a month later‚ Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Because Russia was allied with Serbia‚ they also joined the war‚ leading to the rest of the Triple Entente (Great Britain and France) also joining the fight in addition to Belgium. Without these alliances being in place‚ this would only have been a small war between two countries instead of becoming a world
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AP Euro Timeline 1348-1351 Black Death 1337-1453 Hundred Years War 1378-1417 Great Schism 1440 Lorenzo Valla disproves Donation of Constantine 1485 End of War of Roses 1492 Columbus sails to Americas; Grenada falls to Spain ;Moors are driven from Spain (Ferdinand and Isabella) 1509 Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly 1513 Machiavelli’s The Prince 1517 95 Theses (Tip: 1+1+7=9‚ with 5— 95 Theses) 1527 Sack of Rome‚ crucial imperial victory by HRE against France and Italian
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The First World War (Revision) The rise of Germany upset the balance of power in Europe The Old Balance of Power - a balance of power was established between Russia‚ Austria‚ Prussia and France‚ with Britain holding the scales. The rise of a unified Germany upset this balance. Germany was unified not only by ‘blood and iron’ but also by ‘coal and iron’. Rapid industrialization‚ concentrated military power‚ a young and dramatically increasing population (43% increase between 1880 and 1910)
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and wanted to win‚ this means that they all hated each other while just concentrating on having a bigger army that could overpower the others. Russia won the arms race as a single country as it developed there army the quickest but combined the triple entente won the arms race. In conclusion the all became competitive trying to be better than one another and this could have led to war. Nevertheless the assassination in Sarajevo was also a long term cause leading to ww1 as Serbia was very annoyed because
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powers in World War 1 were‚ The British Empire‚ France‚ and The Russian Empire. “These countries were formally linked by The London Pact‚ or more correctly known as‚ the Treaty of London‚ 1915‚ was a secret pact. It was a secret pact between the Triple Entente and Italy‚ signed in London on 26 April 1915 by the United Kingdom‚ France‚ Russia‚ and the Kingdom of Italy. “(3)
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Throughout history‚ European countries have always been at war with each other and sometimes‚ these conflicts could escalate to involve the entire continent. One of the most infamous wars that involved Europe was World War I‚ and the scale of the war shocked Europe along with the rest of the world. World War I had many economic‚ social‚ and political causes‚ and many things happened because of this war. Nations fought in this war to solve many of the issues that caused it‚ but it did a poor job of
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After the Bolsheviks came to power‚ Trotsky became the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs and published the secret treaties previously signed by the Triple Entente that detailed plans for post-war reallocation of colonies and redrawing state borders. White Army propaganda poster depicting Trotsky as Satan‚ and portraying a xenophobic depiction of the Bolsheviks’ Asian supporters as mass murderers. The caption reads‚ "Peace and Liberty in Sovdepiya". Bolshevik propaganda portrait from 1918 depicting
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