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05 A FRAGILE PEACE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - relations between countries were determined by Germany
        
        german chancellor, Bismarck
        
        he designed a complex system of alliances (Bismarckian system)
        
        aim: isolate France
        
        france wanted revenge for the loss of Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871.
        
        The Bismarck system
        
        Second system (1879–1882)
        
        Bismarck made a bilateral agreement with Austria-Hungary (Dual Alliance)
        
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        Bismarck also revived the League of the Three Emperors.
        
        Third system (1887)
        
        he reinforced the Triple Alliance and signed the Reinsurance Treaty with the Russian tsar
        
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        Bismarck also signed the Mediterranean Agreements with Great Britain, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Spain.
        
        First system (1872)
        
        known as the League of the Three Emperors
        
        an alliance between the Austro-Hungarian, German and Russian empires
        
        fall of Bismarck 1890
        
        two opposing diplomatic blocs formed in Europe
        
        the Triple Entente (Russia, France and Great Britain)
        
        the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy)
        
        tension between the two blocs increased
        
        each bloc invested in its military, taking advantage of the advances of industrialisation
        
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        Two sources of extreme tension inherited from the Bismarckian system made the situation worse.
        
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    - - In Eastern Europe
        
        many different peoples were included in the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Ottoman Empire
        
        Most of them were Slavic, therefore supported by Russia
        
        This brought great political instability to the Balkan region and resulted in several wars.
      - The balkans untl 1878
      - The balkans until 1913