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THE ARMED PEACE IN EUROPE - Coggle Diagram
THE ARMED PEACE IN EUROPE
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE
BECAME THE MOST IMPORTANT EUROPEAN POWER
MILITARY DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
EXPLANATION
BETWEEN 1870-1914
IT WAS PEACE BUT THE TENSION GROWED
COUNTRIES MOSTLY FABRICATED WEAPONS
BISMARCKIAN SYSTEM (1871-90)
WILHELM I
DIPLOMACY
MAINTAINED BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
OTTO VON BISMARCK
SYSTEM OF ALLIANCES
WITH
ASTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE
ITALY
RUSSIAN EMPIRE
OBJECTIVES
MAINTAIN GERMAN HEGEMONY
TO MAKE OTHER COUNTRIES WANT FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH THEM
PREVENT FRANCE FROM DECLARING THE WAR ON GERMANY
TO RECOVER ALSACE-LORRAINE (LOST IN GERMAN UNIFICATION)
WITH THIS:
THERE WASN'T WAR IN EUROPE IN 20 YEARS
STRENGTHEN GERMAN ARMY
OTHER COUNTRIES FORCED TO BUILD UP THEIR ARMIES (ARMS RACE)
IF NOT THEY WILL BE WEAKER THAN THE GERMAN
BISMARCKIAN SYSTEM
1872
GERMANY, AUSTRO-HUNGARY AND RUSSIA
1879
SECRET DOUBLE ALLIANCE (GERMANY AND AUSTRO-HUGARY)
1881
PROBLEMS BETWEEN AUSTRIANS AND RUSSIANS
1882
TRIPLE ALLIANCE (GERMANY, AUSTRO-HUNGARY AND ITALY)
1887
GERMANY SIGNED THE REINSURANCE TRATY WITH RUSSIA
EXPANSIONIST FOREIGN POLICY OF WILHELM II
1888
WILHELM CAME TO THE THRONE
WILHELM II APPLIED AN EXPANSIONIST POLICY
REFLECT GERMANY'S GROWING ECONOMIC POWER
TO OBTAIN A COLONIAL EMPIRE
1890
BISMARCK DISAGREED WITH HIS POLICY AND RESIGNED FROM HIS POSITION
WILHELM DIDN'T RENEW REINSURANCE TREATY WITH (RUSSIA)
RUSSIA ALLIED WITH FRANCE
FRANCE'S ECONOMIC INVESTMENT IN RUSSIAN INDUSTRY
HIS HEGEMONY LED TO:
THE FORMATION OF THE TRIPLE ENTENTE (1907)
FORMED BY
FRANCE
GREAT BRITAIN
RUSSIA
OBJECTIVE: STOP GERMANY'S EXPANSION