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First Morocco Crisis
France hoped to conquer Morocco in Africa, and one of the points of the Entente Cordiale (1904) was that the British would help them. But in 1905, Kaiser Wilhelm visited Morocco and promised to protect Morocco against anyone who threatened it. -
Telegraph Article
In an interview for the Daily Telegraph he said that the English were 'mad', said that the German people hated them, and demanded that: 'Germany must have a powerful fleet to protect her interests in even the most distant seas'. Eventhough he said he wanted to be friends with Britain. -
Bosnian Crisis, 1908
In 1908 there was a revolution in Turkey, and Austria-Hungary took advantage of this to annex (take over) the Turkish state of Bosnia.
Turkey's power was declining over all the years and Austria-Hungary was uprising, -
Agadir Crisis, 1911
There was a revolution in Morocco, and the French sent in an army to put it down, then took over the country. Germany reacted by sending the gunboat Panther to the Moroccan port of Agadir on July 1, 1911. -
Balkan Wars, 1912-13
As Turkey continued to grow weaker, in 1912 Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria (Balkan League) attacked Turkey and captured almost all the remaining Turkish land in Europe. Britain and Germany got together and used their influence to bring the war to an end, what resulted in the treaty of Bukarest in 1913. -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
On 28 June 1914 Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.