Bismarck's Foreign Policy
- Created by: Katie Beaumont
- Created on: 07-04-17 20:06
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- Bismarck's FOREIGN POLICY
- Bismarck's DIPLOMATIC skills had helped to bring about the unified German state
- His aim was to maintain peace
- PROMOTED the new German state as a 'SATIATED POWER', with no more ambition
- France and Alsace Lorraine were Germany's main threat to peace
- Bismarck feared that France made an alliance with either RUSSIA or AUSTRIA
- This would mean that Germany had to fight a war on 2 fronts
- France and Alsace Lorraine were Germany's main threat to peace
- Therefore, Bismarck decided to ISOLATE France whilst remaining on good terms with RUSSIA & AUSTRIA
- E.g. 1879: DUAL ALLIANCE with AUSTRIA
- 1882: ITALY joined this alliance
- 1887: REINSURANCE TREATY with RUSSIA
- E.g. 1879: DUAL ALLIANCE with AUSTRIA
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