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The major powers were the european countries of Austria-Hungary, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia.
Triple entente- Britain, France, and Russia
Triple alliance- Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
Rivalries existed in the ares of trade, colonial possesions, the size and strength of armies and navies, and power as an individual nation.
Major powers like Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Austria- Hungary, and Italy, competed to gain access to raw materials such as gold and diamonds in areas outside Europe to increase trading opportunities. This made them compete for the control of territory and resources in Africa. Soon they made weapons and ships to protect their interests.
France and germany were already involved in the franco-prussian war. At the end of 1871 France lost Alsace and Lorraine to German forces so France had always wanted an excuse to fight Germany for their land back.
The bigger your empire was, the more power you had. So Germany, trying to protect its resources, started to build up their army and create more weapons. This lead to the other major powers also building up their armies. By the end of this, Britain had the most powerful and equiped army, though there wasn't very many people. All their money went to the navy, because the only way to travel in and out of Britain was by ship. Britain had the largest navy force in 1900 and it was said that whoever rules the waves could rule the world. But still Britain was worried about the growing size of the German navy.
28th of june was when Archduke Franz
Ferdinand was assassinated at sarajevo
in Bosnia. This event gave Austria-Hungary
an excuse to declare a war against the
serbians.
Germany offers to help Austria-Hungary in any way required. This is known as the black cheque.
Russia offers to help serbia hoping to weaken the Austrian-Hungarian influence in the balkans which they are fighting over to gain power.
Russia gets ready for war and germany threatens that if Russia plans for war, they will declare a war against Russia.
Germany implements on the schlieffen
plan in order to avoid war from both sides
and decides to invade the neutral Belgium
as part of the plan.
Britain supports its ally and defends belgium.
There were two war plans - the
schlieffen plan, and plan 17. Both of these plans were ready to be used at any time.
The schlieffen plan was the german plan
and it went through Belgium, behind the line of french fortresses, and into the middle of France.
Plan 17 was the French plan and it
went straight to Lorraine and Alsace
because their aim was to gain lorraine
and Alsace back from Germany.
Germany declares war on Russia. France, seeing this as an opportunity for revenge against Germany, decides to help Russia.
By 1907, they had formed themselves into rival and armed blocs.