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Germany and Italy were left as divided states.
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The Franco-Prussian war was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the German states of the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. (nationalism)
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Strong nationalist movements and revolutions led to the unification of the divided states of Germany and Italy. (nationalism)
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The alliance system started after the Franco-Prussian war by Germany in 1879. (nationalism)
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The Triple Alliance was a military alliance among Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Italy.
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The Triple entente was the alliance linking the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. (Militarism)
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The Russo-Japonese war was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. (militarism)
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Morocco had been given to France by Britain, but the Moroccans wanted their independence. This occur in the Moroccan crises. (nationalism)
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Moroccans wanted their independence and Germany supported them. This occur in the Moroccan crises.(nationalism)
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The Schlieffen Plan was the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilize her forces near the German border. (militarism)
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During the Balkan crises, Austria-Hungary took over the former Turkish providence of Bosnia. The Turkish were the ones of the Ottoman empire. (imperialism)
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The Germans were again protesting French possession of Morocco in the 2nd Moroccan crises. (nationalism)
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In 1912 there was war in the Balkans when the Balkan states drove Turkey out of the area. (nationalism)
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The states then fought each other over which area should belong to which state. (militarism, Imperialism)
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife are assassinated in Sarajevo. (nationalism)
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On this day in 1914, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in response to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. (nationalism, imperialism)
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As an ally of Serbia, Russia announces full mobilization of her armed forces. (militarism)
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Germany mobilizes her armed forces and declares war on Russia.
France authorized mobilization of her armed forces.
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Germany occupied Luxembourg as a preliminary implementation of the Schlieffen plan. (nationalism)
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On the afternoon of this day in 1914, two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany declares war on France, moving ahead with a long-held strategy, conceived by the former chief of staff of the German army, Alfred von Schlieffen, for a two-front war against France and Russia. (nationalism, imperialism)
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Germany declares war on neutral Belgium and invades, designed to defeat France quickly.
As a result of this invasion, Britain declares war on Germany.
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