INTST101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Triple Alliance (1882), Central Alliance, Central Powers
8 Dec 2014
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Ah had a really unstable border and was industrializing much more: the basis of the first group that went to war in 1914 slowly. The central powers: germany and ah were immediate participants and turkey joined germany and. The triple entente: britain would not let france fall to germany, triple entente and central powers were the two teams during ww1. 1914: austrian archduke was assassinated, ironic b/c he was pretty tolerant, serb terrorist shot him, leadership of austria saw that as an opportunity to crush serbian nationalism. Austria actually wanted a war b/c if they waited too long b/c the strategic situation would be worse (russia was a close friend of. Serbia both are slavic countries and russia was modernizing) Swung their troops in belgium whose neutrality had been guaranteed by germany, france, and britain. Britain became involved partly because they were shocked that. Germans went through belgium since they were guaranteed to protect belgium"s neutrality.
