Britain - splendid isolation (wasn’t involved in
european affairs, good navy, island)
YEAR KEY WORDS, PURPOSE, EFFECT
1905 - Triple Alliance = Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
- Entente Cordiale = Britain, France
Triple Alliance
- Schlieffen plan made to avoid land war on 2 fronts:
Franco-Russian
- Russia = 6 weeks to mobilize
alliance
- Travel through Belgium to attack Paris, then France would
Entente Cordiale
surrender.
Schlieffen plan
- Then turn to face Russia
1906 - HMS dreadnought - so revolutionary that it made all battleships
outdated: Led to NAVAL RACE.
HMS dreadnought
- Germans made Rheinland (version of dreadnaught)
Algeciras conference
- Britain made super-Dreadnought HMS Neptune
- More sailors
- Algeciras conference:
- France have control in Moroccan affairs
- Every nation can trade with Morocco
- Showed the Entente Cordiale was strong.
1907 - Hague conference - rules of naval warfare.
Russian joins triple
Entente
1908 -
Austria annexes
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1911 - 2nd Moroccan Crisis:
- Rebel tribes rose against Sultan in Fez.
2nd Moroccan Crisis:
- Germany though France encouraged revolt to send troops
Black hand formed in
to occupy Morocco.
Serbia
- Germany sent gunboat to Moroccan post to ‘protect
Germans in Morocco’
- Black hand - 2,500 members
1912 - 1st Balkan War- Turkey surrendered and gave up all land in Europe
to Balkan League.
1913 - 2nd Balkan war
european affairs, good navy, island)
YEAR KEY WORDS, PURPOSE, EFFECT
1905 - Triple Alliance = Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
- Entente Cordiale = Britain, France
Triple Alliance
- Schlieffen plan made to avoid land war on 2 fronts:
Franco-Russian
- Russia = 6 weeks to mobilize
alliance
- Travel through Belgium to attack Paris, then France would
Entente Cordiale
surrender.
Schlieffen plan
- Then turn to face Russia
1906 - HMS dreadnought - so revolutionary that it made all battleships
outdated: Led to NAVAL RACE.
HMS dreadnought
- Germans made Rheinland (version of dreadnaught)
Algeciras conference
- Britain made super-Dreadnought HMS Neptune
- More sailors
- Algeciras conference:
- France have control in Moroccan affairs
- Every nation can trade with Morocco
- Showed the Entente Cordiale was strong.
1907 - Hague conference - rules of naval warfare.
Russian joins triple
Entente
1908 -
Austria annexes
Bosnia-Herzegovina
1911 - 2nd Moroccan Crisis:
- Rebel tribes rose against Sultan in Fez.
2nd Moroccan Crisis:
- Germany though France encouraged revolt to send troops
Black hand formed in
to occupy Morocco.
Serbia
- Germany sent gunboat to Moroccan post to ‘protect
Germans in Morocco’
- Black hand - 2,500 members
1912 - 1st Balkan War- Turkey surrendered and gave up all land in Europe
to Balkan League.
1913 - 2nd Balkan war
