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There were numerous Crises before 1914. There was the First Moroccan Crisis in 1905. Kaiser Wilhelm II visited the Moroccan port of Tangier to denounce the French and their influence there. It provoked an...

The alliances were a long term cause of the First World War. In 1882, The Triple Alliance was created between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. The Triple Entente was created in 1907 between Britain, Ru...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austria-Hungary had annexed the Balkans in 1908 and in turn infuriated the Serbian nationals there. Thanks to this annexation, many na...

The Schlieffen plan was devised in 1897, years before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The plan was based on the assumption that Germany would be at war with France and Russia at the same time...

Treaty of Versailles- The treaty of Versailles humiliated Germany. It was far too harsh thanks to the French President’s wish to get revenge of Germany for the First World War. The main clauses that Germa...