Militarism
The increased military buildup allowed European nations to easily go to war in what year?
What is 1914?
This alliance between Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary was created in 1882.
What is the Triple Alliance?
After centuries of dominance with imperialism, commerce, and their navy, this country felt a significant amount of nationalism.
What is Britain?
Several of the economic motivations for imperialism were cheap labor and this type of material.
What are raw materials?
This government leader was angry and autocratic with strong military views that included how the Germanic God predestined him to guide Germany to greatness instead of remaining in a "humiliating position."
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm II?
The development of this system increased service time in Russia and France and expanded the German army.
What is conscription?
This alliance between Britain, France, and Russia in 1887 caused Germany to be encircled.
What is the Triple Entente?
Nationalism was spread through speeches, press reports, and exaggerated rhetoric in this common media form.
What are newspapers?
France and Germany become competitors during both the Franco-Prussian War and this crisis in 1905 when France increased nationalism and hostility towards Germany, while Germany faced a failure for Weltpolitik and a strengthened Entente Cordiale between France and Britain.
What is the Morrocan Crisis?
David Lloyd George believed that nations did this into war as they went over the brink into a boiling cauldron with the argument that no one wanted war at the scale of WWI.
What is slither?
With the invention of these new naval ships entering service in 1906, the 'naval scare' between Britain and Germany was intensified with Germany implementing the German Navy Law in 1908 to increase production of battleships.
What are dreadnoughts?
The name for the establishment of groups of countries that created shared similar beliefs between members of the same group and a feeling of tension against rival groups.
What are alliances?
Germany demanded all of the French Congo in this crisis in 1911, but it ended as another failure for Weltpolitik, strengthened in the entente between France and Britain, and increased tension between Britain and Germany with Britain getting involved to protect a naval base.
What is the Agadir Crisis? also called the Second Morrocan Crisis
A book review states the opinion that the war was not caused by inadvertence, but rather was caused by a fearful set of elite which contributes to this argument about the cause of the war being mainly because of awful governments.
What is deliberate?
This war in 1870 led to the frustration and weakening of France after a humiliating defeat, provided a military lesson about the importance of mobilization and fast deployment in modern warfare, and shifted the power balance with the emergence of Germany as a new European power.
What is the Franco-Prussian War?
This treaty created in 1887 would have ensured that Russia and Germany would stay allies to avoid a two front war, but it was later not renewed by Wilhelm in Germany leading to conditions for the Franco-Russian Alliance and ensuring Germany would face a two front war.
What is the Reinsurance Treaty?
What is satire?
In 1880, this event involved colonial rivalry with countries eagerly wanting power to the detriment of others.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
The Austrians saw this event as an opportunity to sort out the Serbs because they hated Serbia anyway and responded with a blank cheque for German support on July 5 before sending Serbia an ultimatum on July 23 and finally declaring war on July 28.
What is the assassination of Franz Duke Ferdinand?
Made in 1906, this aggressive plan of attack by Germany failed because of strong Belgian resistance that gave Britain time to mobilize and join the war, an unexpected quick Russian deployment, and difficulty maintaining supplies.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
In this year, France was no longer isolated and Germany would face a two front war with the establishment of the Franco-Russian Allicance that promised assistance if either France or Russia was attacked by a member of the Triple Alliance.
What is 1894?
Under Bismark, with this nickname, there was an increase in steel to build a military along with the promotion of the idea that war was the only way to become a world power and secure Germany's place in the world.
What is the "Iron Chancellor"?
After both the First and Second Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913, this country emerged successful which encouraged strong nationalist feeling, caused it to double in size, and encouraged Russia to become an ally.
What is Serbia?
Russia didn't want war, but Tsar Nicolas had already let this country down during the Bosnian Crisis in 1908, so Russia mobilized hoping it would only be against Austria, but then forced to issue a general mobilization.
What is Serbia?