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Otto Von Bismarck came up with the decision to create the German Empire
The German Empire was made up of smaller German states. -
France almost immediately following its defeat by Prussia in the Franco-Prussian War
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French wanted revenge on Germany
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a decade of civil strife and a battering at the hands of the Japanese military
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Serbia - had been struggling to hold back full-scale revolution ever since the Japanese military disaster
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Russian War With Japan: Shock Japanese Victory
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Reichstag elections had resulted in the election of no fewer than 110 socialist deputies
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The intervention of the larger European powers brought about an end to this the First Balkan War
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The Balkans: Italy Versus Turkey
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Beaten and having surrendered Bulgaria also lost Adrianople back to Turkey.