Alliances and WW1

Question 1

Essential understanding 1

Answer 1

WW1 was all about the place of Germany in Europe

Question 2

Essential understanding 2

Answer 2

France and Germnay hated each other

Question 3

What did France do when Germany became a united country in 1870-1?

Answer 3

France went to war to stop it and lost
- They also lost Alsace - Lorraine

Question 4

3 Emperors league/ Dreikaserbund

Answer 4

Germany, Austria - Hungary, and Russia
- Chancellor Bismarck saved Germany’s war problem by being friends w/them in 19th century

Question 5

What else kept Germany safe?

Answer 5

Bismarck then allied w/ triple alliance 1882

Question 6

What happened when Kaiser became emperor?

Answer 6

Broke Russian alliance leading to Russia making an alliance w/France 1892 (Franco-Russian Alliance)

Question 7

Angelo - Japanese Naval Agreement

Answer 7

Freed up Britain up Britain from protecting its empire in the far east (helped ready for war) in 1902

Question 8

Entente Cordiale

Answer 8

1907 Russia joined Britain and France to create Triple Entente

Question 9

The Balkans Alliances w/ Russia?

Answer 9

Russia already allied w/ Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria

Question 10

What happened when eruption for Balkans occured?

Answer 10

Alliances were dragged down (1914)

Question 11

System of Alliances

Answer 11

Caused ww1 b/c when 2 countries become involved in war all other countries will be pulled into it