Moroccan crises Flashcards
How was the first Moroccan crisis triggered? (1905-6)
Bulow and the Kaiser wanting to break the Anglo-French agreement and gain a diplomatic victory with influence in Morocco (Wilhelm’s tangier speech)
What was the result of the international conference from the first moroccan crisis?
Germany were diplomatically isolated and humiliated, France kept Morocco and The Anglo-French alliance was actually strengthened
How might the first Moroccan crisis be seen as German aggression?
Germany were attempting to take French spheres of influence and aggravate 2 rivals in Britain and France
How might the first Moroccan crisis not be seen as German aggression?
German attempt of expansionism into an unofficial French territory, to get ‘their place in the sun’
What was the second Moroccan crisis? (1911)
Germany’s foreign minister Kiderlen took an aggressive approach and sent a gunboat to Morocco as ‘protection for German citizens’ althouh in reality was trying to claim French Congo as compensation for the 1906 Moroccan humiliation. France gave Germany a small part of Congo as compensation but with Britain standing by France’s side, relations with Germany were cut off and British-German public hatred reached a new level.
Why could the second Moroccan crisis be seen as German aggression?
It was another clumsy bit of diplomacy by Germany and they had again gone straight to aggression, rather than diplomacy. Again attempting to take French territory when tensions were already high.
