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Bismark forges early pacts
between the years 1864 and 1871 Prussia´s chancellor ( Otto von Bismark) freely used war to unify Germany. -
Franco prussian war
This war was the consequence of a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. This war ended on 10 May 1871. -
military aliliances
Creation of military alliences between the great powers -
Dual alliance
Bismark formed a dual alliance between Austria-Hungary and Germany. -
Bismark makes snother treaty
in this year Bismark took away an ally from France by making a treaty with Russia -
Shifting alliances threaten peace
Germany´s policy changed a lot and that same year Kaiser Wilhelm II forced Otto Von Bismark to resign. Wilhelm then took the power and the army was his biggest pride. ´´Whilhelm let his nation treaty with Russia laspe in this same year.´´ -
Russia respondedwith military defense
In the years 1892 and 1894 Russia formed a defensive military alliance with France to respond for what had happened. This had been Bismark´s fear. This would cause Germany to be the enemy. -
Frederic Passy expressed a concern.
´´the entire able-bidies population are preparing to massare one another; though no one , it is true, wants to attack, and everybody protests his love of peace and determinatiton to maintain it, yet the whole world feels that it only requiers some unforeseen incident, some unpreventable accident, fot the spark to fall in a flash... and blow all Europe sky high´´ -
Britain makes an entente
Britain makes an allience with France and Russia. It is called a triple entente. -
Austria anexed
Austria took over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Wich are Slavic populations. -
Organization of troops for the war.
All the experts mentioned the importance of being ablo to mobilize, organize and move troops in the case of a war. They developed highly detailed plans for this mobilization.