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Triple Alliance And Triple Entente During World War I

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In the beginning of the 20th century, many changes where to take place that would ultimately determine the alliances commonly known as the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente during World War I. In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War began. This war ended with a defeat for Russia, which was humiliating, but did encourage the Russian Empire to focus on the Balkans, an area that would play more dominate roles in World War I (“10 Events that Led to War One” 1). Their newfound interest in this area forced them to reassert themselves later, during the Bosnia Annexation Crisis (Trueman 1). Over the years, Germany began to grow as an empire and an extremely militaristic power (Tonge 1). The German’s power created a naval rivalry between themselves and Britain. Britain, fearing war, signed the Entente …show more content…

This put the Austria-Hungarians in a political crisis, looking for a successor. On July 28 1914, Austria-Hungary, looking to take revenge on the powers that assassinated their heir, declared war on Serbia but also Germany. Shortly after, Germany declared war on Russia and the Ottoman empire declared war on France and Britain, who declared war on their enemy, Germany. This created the two sides of World War I, The Allies: Braitain, France and Russia, and the Central Powers: Austria-Hungary and Germany . In 1915, Italy joined the Allies, Bulgaria joined the Central Powers, and in 1916 Romania joined the Allies. Finally, in 1917, the United States joined the Allies as well (“Course of the War 1914-18” 1). A notable aspect of World War I is that there was no identifiable “bad guy” of this war, however, as shown above, both sides had history and motives that pushed them to declare

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