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Germany And Austria Britain And France
812 wordsIn 1871 two new major states of Europe had been formed the German Empire and the kingdom of Italy. The new German Empire, under the hand of Otto von Bismarck, was steered carefully, always with an eye upon France, for the Franco-Prussian War (187071) had left France thirsting for revenge and for recovery of the lost provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. 2 Germany had allied itself with Russia and Austria-Hungary in the Three Emperors League, but Austria-Hungary and Russia were not the best of friend...
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Russia And Austria France And Russia
1,889 wordsThe importance of the alliance system that developed in Europe in the decades before World War I as a cause for it is still an important topic of debate and argument between modern historians. Some argue that the alliance system was a direct cause of the outbreak of war between all major countries in Europe while other historians prefer to state that the alliance configuration we observe before the war started was simply a symptom of the conflicts and disagreements, fears and envies that had bee...
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19 Th Century Triple Alliance
2,109 wordsThe causes of World War I have been discussed in great detail in many publications. Most agree that the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was the final piece of the complex puzzle, but there were other factors that contributed to the outbreak of war. James John uses the approach of starting from the assassination and building layers of other possible factors around it, while Joachim Read gives us a timeline approach to the events leading up to the murder. Bismarck, the German Chancellor from 1...
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Franco Prussian War Russia And Austria
1,127 wordsWorld War I was a very complicated war. It goes back as far back as 1870. Of course the was didn't last for that many years, but it had many cases. Not just one spark that started it off. The Franco-Prussian War was one of these cases. There were several Franco-Prussian Wars. The last Franco-Prussian War started in 1870. Prussia was in a confederation. A confederation is a group of states that are loosely joined together and have more power than the government of the whole country. Prussia was t...
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Franco Prussian War King William
1,695 wordsOtto von Bismarck was born at Schonhausen on I April 1815. Bismarck came from a Pomeranian Junker family. Bismarck grew up in the powerful German state of Prussia. When Bismarck was young, he was a big man due to eating and drinking too much; he was always ready for a duel. Bismarck wore a full beard for long periods of his life. Bismarck went to the best Berlin grammar school; then he went to study laws at the University of Gottingen in Hanover and University of Berlin. After qualifying the exa...
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