HIS 2342 Lecture Notes - Serbian Nationalism, Anglo-Ashanti Wars, Central Powers
20 Mar 2014
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They were competing in both economic and political powers: germany seemed to be positioned to over-take britain. The british government were worried about it"s declining commercial power: on the eve of wwi the competition is between germany and the uk. France was somewhat left out of this battle. Unlike it"s neighbors france wasn"t in a position to confront this position. There was also a strong socialist movement that proned pacific measures. But, there was a different movement in france. The franco-prusian war is fresh in their lives and the loss of territory to germany: even though they"re in a weak position france is still envious of germany, germany has been able to make allegiances with other europeans. Germany has ties with the austro-hungarian empire, russia and italy. Their were fears about how loyal the russian empire could be trusted in this allegiance because of russia"s own territorial desires. These fears were confirmed when russia ended up siding with the.
