Beginning of World War I
Alliances leading to World War I
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- one of the reasons that are that small sided as to occur as to any cause for
- the cause of why world war one turned into a world war as opposed to just a
- regional conflict in southeast europe
- is the alliance the system
- that was developing in the decades leading up to world war one
- and understand that i distilled a bunch of the alliances that occurred in those
- two decades leading up to world one this is just a distilled version there are
- many other alliances at work and justly related but read the still down the ones
- that were directly related to a
- all of the dominoes falling
- at in nineteen fourteen that led to all of your convenience and c at war with
- each other
- so to understand that we have to rewind seventy-five years so world war one is
- starts in nineteen fourteen
- seventy five years before that and eighteen thirty nine you have the treaty
- of london
- and the treaty of london did many things but article seven is what's written
- what's relevant to the beginning of world war one
- were britain agrees to protect the neutrality of the belgium
- if you're skeptical you might say this is a seventy five-year-old treaty why
- does this matter anymore and that actually would be a good question it
- really all of these alliances it's a very healthy debate you can have as to
- whether these are the direct causes of of why one of these powers declared war
- on the other or whether these were just excuses is worked out of a legal pretext
- for saying oh i need to declare war and u_n_ in reality really didn't want to
- declare war for a whole set of reasons to kind of
- keep the other persons empire and check to flex their military muscle to go out
- for more territory in their empires
- who knows what it might be
- but needless to say
- eighteen thirty nine was a legal basis
- or the british empire to protect
- to protect
- belgium
- now you ford passport forty years you'd eighteen seventy nine
- you have a
- a newly born german empire out of the franco prussian war in eighteen
- seventy-one that newly born a german empire they just had a
- essentially it's it's an extension of prussia the the for fundamentally a
- german kingdom
- his head of war with france the took some very valuable territory from france
- they're paranoid that france wants to get back at them they're paranoid about
- they're paranoid about the russians sunday have some connection with the
- austrians on the austral the austro-hungarian vegetate
- and so if the senate in eighteen seventy nine they signed the dual aligns treaty
- between germany and austria hungary to protect each other if a russia attacks
- they have this common enemy right over here russia
- so they're going to let me just different color
- and they're going to protect each other
- so this makes the new the new german empire feel a little bit better about
- its position in europe and case they were to get into a war with either of
- these characters
- then in eighteen ninety two
- you can imagine if you ever play game of risk
- work your play the game of diplomacy which is actually based on what happened
- in world war one
- if you see some people that you might be in war with starting to become friends
- you are look for other friends other lines is that you can form in case they
- declare war on you
- so an eighteen ninety two you have an alliance between the french and the
- russians the frankel russian military convention so this is an alliance you do
- this in the me do this in the magenta color again
- you know lines
- between france
- france
- and russia
- and then finally in the early nineteen hundred's nineteen oh four in nineteen
- oh seven
- you have a series of agreements on contraception means agreements
- agreements between the british empire in france between the british empire and
- the russian empire
- descent so you get on good terms with each other these weren't as formally
- bonding that hate someone's going to attack you i'm going to attack them but
- they were sent civil to resolve a lot of the issues on ds what's going on in
- their dear other imperial conquest
- and they formed what is called the trip a long time to the triple agreements
- between
- between the british empire
- and right here i just to circle the united kingdom france
- france and brush a
- and on the other side of that you had the triple alliance you have germany
- uh... austria hungary and you also have you also have italy
- now the reason why even though entry into world war one italy was formerly
- part of the triple alliance in the work treaties between italy and germany to
- become part of the strip alliance
- the reason i don't focus on those as once the war started italy did not go on
- the side of german and maastricht germany and austria hungary
- it went on the side of the allies on the side of the triple aunt
- but this will give you a good background for y
- uh... what would seem like a regional skirmish in in southeast europe uh...
- turns into a pan-european eventually pan global war
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