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Germany, a new source of power in Europe, was looking for other countries to further their power to make them unstopable.
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy are the countries who form this Alliance system. The Triple Alliance is also know as the Central Powers.
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Italy signs a treaty saying that they will support Germany in the event of a war but only if it is a defensive war.
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Agreed that they would come to the defense of their allies only if it was a defensive war.
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France, afraid of being isolated, became allies with Russia.
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Britain, also fearing being isolated, signed a treaty with France.
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Russia wanted more allies so they persuaded Britain to become apart of their Allied System.
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The Tripple Entene is refered to as the Allies. The three countries that make up the Triple Entente is Russia, France, and Britain.
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He was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and was murderd by the Serbian Secret Society, Black Hand. The Astrio-Hungarian government sent a list of ultimatums.
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Austrio-Hungary declares war on Serbia, starting World War I.
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Germany needed more men and Turkey felt they would win so, they joined forces.
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Even though Italy was allies of Germeny and Austia-Hungry, Italy was able to side with the allies. It was an offensive war on the centeral powers side, Italy did not have to support them.
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On August 1st, 1916 Romania entered the war. Entering the war, they decided to join the Allied Powers.
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The Germans had restarted unrestricted submarine warfare again, after assuring the United States they would not. After a couple of United States commercial boats got sunk because of this, President Wilson declares war against Germany.
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Greece joined forces with the Allies on June 27th, 1917.
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Germany was out of resourses, and was tired, so they signed an armistance with the Allied leaders.
