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The alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary was formed by Bismarck.
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Italy joined the Dual Alliance forming the Triple Alliance
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Bismarck took another possible ally from France when he allied with Russia.
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Alexander III succeeded his father, Alexander II, and was like his grandfather, Nicholas I, and clung to the principles of autocracy.
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The foreign policy was changed dramatically when Kaiser Wilhelm II-- who became ruler two years earlier--forced Bismarck to resign.
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200,000 + workers and their family went to the czar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg . They asked for better working conditions, more personnal freedom, and an elected national legislature. Soldiers were ordered to shoot them down.
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By 1914, Europe was divided into two rival camps. The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance.
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Heir to the throne of Austro-Hungarian, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, went amd visited Sarajevo for the last time. That day they were shot point blank.
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Austria rejected Serbia's offer abd declared war.
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The German declared war on Russia
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Russia fared better against the Austrians thsn against the Germans.
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Opposing armies on the Western Front had dug miles of parallel trenches to protect themselves from enemy fire.This set the stage for trench warfare.
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Slaughter in this war peaked.Germans launched a giant attack. Each side lost at least 30,000
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President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. They entered the war on the Allies' side.
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World War 1 was over but peace was to be worked for. A conference was had to establish peace