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33 Cards in this Set
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1871 |
Franco-Prussian War |
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1879 |
Dual alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary |
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1882 |
Triple alliance - Italy joins dual alliance |
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1892 |
Franco-Russian alliance |
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1904 |
Entente Cordiale - Britain and France |
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1907 |
The Anglo-Russian entente completes the Triple Entente |
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1900-1914 |
Naval Arms Race |
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1905/06 |
•The Schlieffen Plan was made/finalised •The Moroccan Crisis |
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BEF |
British Expeditionary Force - 150000 men in case of war |
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1909 |
Russia started to build up an army |
Russia |
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1906 |
Algeciras Conference |
Germany was forced to back down from taking Morocco |
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1911 |
Agadir Crisis |
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1908 |
Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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1878 |
Austria-Hungary given control of Bosnia in a treaty. |
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1912 |
First Balkan War |
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1913 |
Second Balkan war |
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1914 |
Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand |
Sarajevo |
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23 July 1914 |
Austria-Hungary blames the Serbian government for the assassination of Franz, sending an ultimum to Serbia. |
ultimum |
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28 July 1914 |
Serbia refuses to let Austrian troops in (10th clause of ultimum) so A-H declares war on Serbia and shells Belgrade. |
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29 July 1914 |
Russia begins mobilising troops to help Serbia |
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30 July 1914 |
Germany demands that Russia stop mobilising. |
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1 August 1914 |
Russia refuses to stop mobilising, so Germany declares war on them |
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2 August 1914 |
France begins mobilising to help Russia |
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3 August 1914 |
Germany declares war on France |
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4 August 1914 |
Germany sends troops through Belgium to stop France - this breaks the Treaty Of London (1839) - so Britain declares war on Germany. |
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6 August 1914 |
A-H declares war on Russia |
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1914-18 |
World War 1 |
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January 1918 |
Woodrow Wilson's 14 points |
USA |
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1935 |
Stresa Conference |
Mussolini |
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1922 |
Mussolini made prime minister |
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October 1935 |
Mussolini sent troops to invade Abyssinia |
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May 1936 |
Italy had conquered all of Abyssinia |
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1939 |
Nazi-Soviet Pact |
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