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| The alliance between Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary |
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| Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary |
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| Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary |
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| When the Russo-German agreement lapsed, French seized opportunity to form alliance with Russia in 1894 |
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| Argued that sea power had always been foundation of Britain's greatness and that sea power overrules land power |
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| the signing of the Entente cordiale marked the end of almost a millennium of intermittent conflict between the two nations and their predecessor states, and the formalisation of the peaceful co-existence that had existed since the end of the Napoleonic Wars |
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| Annexation of Bosnia/Balkan Crisis |
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| When Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Russian and Austrian foreign ministers came to a secret agreement that they would call an international conference at Buchlau at which Russia would favor Austrian annexation |
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| pitted the Balkan League (Serbia, Greece, Montenegro and Bulgaria) against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success |
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| The Second Balkan War was a conflict which broke out when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its share of the spoils of the First Balkan War, attacked its former allies, Serbia and Greece, on 29 June 1913 |
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| an unofficial name for the secret military society in the Serbian army in the Kingdom of Serbia, which was founded on September 6, 1901 |
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| (1863-June 28 1914) His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia. |
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| On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were shot to death in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo Princep, a member of the Black Hand' group, a group aiming at the unification of the South Slavs. |
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| blank check from Germany to Austria Hungary |
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| Withdrew forces from the German right wing in France, on August 26, for service in the east |
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| He is most known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in 1914. His popularity led to his nickname Papa Joffre. |
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| The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between the Russian Empire and the German Empire in the first days of World War I. It was fought by the Russian First and Second Armies against the German Eighth Army between 23 August and 30 August 1914 |
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| took place at the peninsula of Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire (in modern day Turkey) between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916, during the First World War. A joint British and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople and secure a sea route to Russia. The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on both sides. |
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| ndecisive naval battle between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet during the First World War. The outnumbered German fleet managed to return to base after inflicting greater damage than it received. In the aftermath Germany turned to its submarines to attack the British merchant fleet. The battle was fought on 31 May and 1 June 1916 in the North Sea near Jutland, Denmark. It was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the war |
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| It was most famously used during the Battle of Verdun in World War I by French General Robert Nivelle. It appears on propaganda posters, such as that by Maurice Neumont after the Second Battle of the Marne, which was later adopted on uniform badges by units manning the Maginot Line. |
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were a set of demands made by the Empire of Japan under Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu sent to the nominal government of the Republic of China on January 18, 1915, resulting in two treaties with Japan on May 25, 1915.
Yuan Shikai, competing with other local warlords to become the ruler of all China, was not in a position to risk war with Japan, and accepted appeasement, a tactic followed by his successors |
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| Secret Treaty of London, 1915 |
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was a secret pact between Italy and Triple Entente, signed in London on 26 April 1915 by the Kingdom of Italy, Great Britain, France and Russia.[1]
According to the pact, Italy was to leave the Triple Alliance and join Triple Entente, as already stated in a secret agreement signed in London, on 4–5 September 1914. Furthermore, Italy was to declare war against Germany and Austria-Hungary within a month (this would happen against Austria-Hungary within a month but much later, 1916, with Germany), Italy was to obtain the following territorial gains (see Italia irredenta) at the end of the war. |
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| a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. The proposal was caught by the British before it could get to Mexico. The revelation angered the Americans and led in part to a U.S. declaration of war in April.[1] |
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