World War One Factors
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Updated: 30 Jan 2019
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Created byBrodie SPALDING
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1870
The french lose in the Franco-Prussian war
leading to France paying out huge amounts of war reparations.
this lead to the creation of the newly formed
German Empire who would rapidly industrialise and begin forming
a new National identity, thus leading to the unbalancing of power on the
European continent.1870
this painting acts as a secondary source to the events
within the Franco-Prussian war after their loss in the war
the french people grew resentful of the newly formed German Empire and would
carry that sentiment all the way until the first world war and beyond1880
with the death of the German Emperor Wilhelm
came the ascension of his son Wilhelm II
who would dismantle much of Germany's foreign relationships
by dismissing the much needed chancellor Otto Von Bismark
and refused to renew the Reinsurance Treaty which deteriorated
Austria-Hunagry's relationship with Russia and
had the side effect of isolating france which would lead to france and
russia froming a secret alliance1905
Russo-Japanese aggression
over central Asia and Korea came to blows with the Russo-Japanese War.
The Russians would end up losing much in the war against Japan,
with the entire Baltic and Pacific fleet being lost.
The war also caused a unheard of political crisis
that led to the Russian Revolution of 1905.
The war would end Russian ambitions in
the Far East and as a result, the Russian government
instead turned its attention to Europe, and especially the Balkans.
This reignited the old rivalry wi1907
Fearing German militarism, Great Britain turned
to other powers for a guarantee of support should Germany
turn their eyes towards the British Isles
this would then lead to Great Britain forming an alliance with France
who were already rivals with Germany. Great Britain would also turn to
another enemy of Germany, Russia & together all three nations
would form the Triple Entente1911-1912
The Italo-Turkish War didn't pose any major threat to peace in Europe.
But the Turkish defeat exposed the weakness of the Ottoman army and
disagreement between the Europe about
the so-called Eastern Questions - the fate of the dying Ottoman Empire.
The war between the Kingdom of Italy and the
Ottoman Empire
was also a strong incentive for the
Balkan League which would capture the Balkan peninsula from the Turks independently from the great powers.1912
Serbia, Greece, Montenegro and Bulgaria created the Balkan League, a military alliance against the Ottoman Empire.
Within a couple months, the Balkan allies stripped the Ottoman Empire of its ownership of the Balkans and divided the conquered territory among themselves.
In June, Bulgaria turned against Serbia and Greece due to a dispute over partition of Macedonia.
But the Bulgarians were defeated within a month and forced to give up their claims in Macedonia.
The success of the Balkan League scare1914
On June 28, a group of conspirators from a revolutionary movement called Mlada Bosna (‘Young Bosnia’) carried out the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir,
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife while they were visiting Sarajevo.
Since the assassin, Gavrilo Princip and his 5 accomplices were Bosnian Serbs,
the Dual Monarchy accused Serbia to stand behind the assassination.
The event triggered the series of events that directly led to the outbreak of World War I.
Austria-Hungary was determined
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