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After the Franco Prussian war, France ended loosing the territory of Alsace Lorraine, a loss who France never got over
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Otto von Bismark, saw France as a dangerous power because he believed that it still wanted revenge from the ango-prussian war. To prevent France to reveal toward him, he made alliances with Austria-hunary and with itally. it became the triple alliance
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Kaiser Wilhelm becomes ruler of Germany, forcing Bismark to resign and changing Germany´s foreing policy dramatically
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Great Britain, Russia and France made an entente, which leteraly means mutual understanding between them in response of the triple alliance.
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Austria feared that as Serbia now was a powerfull neiborhood, efforts to create a slavic state would stir rebellion among it Slavic population so thet anenexed Bosnia and Herzegobina.
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by this year, almost all the countries of eurpoe except Great Britain had large, standing armies with good military inteligence and new armament.
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in a trip to th city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, Archuduke Franze Ferdinand, the heir of the austria hungary throne and his wife sofi, were shot in an open car by Gavrilo Princip a serbian who belonged to the Black Hand, a secret society against Austrian rule.
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After the loss of the royal pair, Austria-Hungary as punishment presented an ultimatum to Serbia, containing numerous demands
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after presenting the ultimatum, Serbia did not agree with some statements and Austria-Hungary declared war inmediately.
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due to their allinaces, germany declares warto russia
