HIS 1110 Lecture 3: HIS1110 Lecture 3.docx
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Treaties and alliances are what keep the world together most important part of international law. Pacta sunt seravanda pacts are binding. Contracts are like treaties between nations, you cannot liberate yourself from a treaty once you have signed it. This is the nation that best identifies themselves, austria-hungary was basically a. In 1888, a new kaiser came to power, wilhelm ii, 1888-1918. He was not going to sit and not challenge britain, which was a conflict to bismark. He did not renew the alliance with russia in 1890. By the time wilhelm took power, the tiple alliance was formed between germany, a-h and italy. France was reaching out for allies, as they had none. The french were in a sense, in a humiliated position, shamed by germany, and had no friends. In addition, france was weakened by an internal struggle between the royalists or the republicans. There was an internal tug of war in france.
