HIST 1020 Lecture 14: Lecture Notes 14
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Bismarck"s foreign policy (kaiser william ii) wanted to force france to give him land. In reaction to this, other countries allied together against germany. Triple entente an alliance between russia, france, and great britain. Dangerous balance of power there is an uncertainty who can come up on top because the countries were equally matched with power. There would be a long war to determine who would win. The black hand serbian nationalist/terrorist group responsible for the assassination of austrian archduke franz ferdinand which resulted in the start of world war i. Archduke franz ferdinand he was the heir of the austrian-hungarian. He was assassinated by a serbian named princip sarajevo in 1914. This event sparked a series of actions that led to the beginning of world war i. Schlieffen plan attack through belgium that drags great britain into things. Industrial warfare new kind of warfare that had factories devoted to making weapons/ammo.
