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Each member promised mutual support in the event of an attack by any other great powers, or for Germany and Italy, an attack by France alone. In a supplementary declaration, Italy specified that its undertakings could not be regarded as being directed against Great Britain.
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This action was taking another option for an ally for France, which then made Germany more powerful with Russia on their side. Bismark strived for powerful nations to be on his side to ensure Germany as a world power.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II and Otto Von Bismarck had opposing political views. When Wilhelm took power he forced Bismark to resign because he wanted more power for himself.
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He broke off the treaty with Russia making them an enemy to Germany. Germany was also France's enemy because France and Russia were in an alliance. Now two strong nations were at odds with Germany and if war broke out Germany would be forced to a two-fronted war.
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This hurt Germany the most because it would create a two fronted war. Bismark became terrified because Russia and France were both big enemies of Germany, making his country a main target agaisnt two strong nations.
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Whilhelm began building up Germany's navy ships, in efforts to be as strong if not stronger than Bristish fleets. Great Britian became worried and formed an alliance with France out of fear.
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Triple Entente was an informal alliance among Great Britain, France, and Russia in the period before World War I. It opposed the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
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While riding in an open carriage, the Archduke and his wife were fired at by Gavrilo Princip, one of the group of seven Bosnian Serbian conspirators. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, hit in the neck and his wife Sophie, hit in the abdomen died within a few minutes thereafter.
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On July 23,
Austria presented Serbia with an ultimatum containing
many demands. Serbia knew that refusing the ultimatum
would lead to war against the more powerful Austria. Serbian leaders had no choice but to agree to most of Austria’s demands or they would be deafeated by Austria.
They offered to have several others settled by an international conference.
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On July 28, 1914, exactly one month after the Archduke’s death, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia that started the devastating World War 1.
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When Russia moved its army to the Russian-Austrian border, they also expected Germany to join Austria, so Russia also mobilized along the German border as well. As a result, the German goverment declared war on Russia on August 1, 1914. They saw Russia's envasion as start of war. If the German Government had failed to guard against this peril, they would have compromised the safety and the very existence of Germany.
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The first major battle on the eastern front occurred when German forces surrounded and destroyed Alexander Samsonov's Russian army at the Battle of Tannenberg. This early 1914 battle proved to be Germany's greatest victory of the war.
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German troops poured into Belgium as directed under the Schleiffen Plan, drawn up in 1905. The British foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, sent an ultimatum to Germany demanding their withdrawal from the neutral Belgium.
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Britian declared war on Germany because Germany did not withdraw from Belgium. Now all of Europe now seemed to be involed in WWI.
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The attack stops Germany from invading France. When Germany retreated after only four days, it gave hope to everyone that this would be a short war.
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Ottoman Empire hoped to gain back all of the land they lost. Now the Central Powers seemed to have more nations and a stronger group.
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Ended Russian plans to invade Germany through Austria-Hungary.
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The Allies attempted to control the sea route from Europe to Russia. They failed because the lacked knowledge of the terrain, along with harsh Turkish resistance. After, Allied forces had suffered heavy casualties and had made little headway from their initial landing sites.
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Italy left Central Powers and joined the Entente because they blieved Austria-Hungray was wrong in starting the war and in their agreement it never said they could not leave.
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There outraged protests from the United States at the German U-boat campaign, when the Lusitania, which had many American passengers aboard, was sank. The Germans moderated their U-boat campaign.
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Unrestricted submarine warfare was Germany’s policy of attacking any ship that tried to get through its U-boat blockade of Great Britain. They would attack any ship, whether it was military, passenger, or merchant.
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The Bristish intercepted a telegram from Germany's foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador in Mexico. The message said that Germany would help Mexico reconquer the land they had lost to the United States if Mexico would ally itself with Germany. The Bristish decoded it and gave it to the U.S.
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President Wilson delivered a powerful speech asking Congress to declare that a state of war existed with Germany, a request Congress and the general public embraced. American neutrality was at an end.
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The British took a large force of tanks across the barbed wire and machine gun posts at Cambrai.
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Germany and Russia agree to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which officially ended the war between them and was the first of act of Lenin.
