Origins and Rivalry Pre-WW1
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- Created on: 25-06-20 14:11
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- State of Each country pre-WW1
- Germany
- Strengths and Ambitions:
- Unified, industrialised urbanised, technology,
- Wanted colonies, build an empire 'German place in the sun'
- Weaknesses & Worries
- Workers unhappy, low wages. Strikes
- 'Encirclement' - Russia and France surrounded
- They took Alsace - Lorraine in 1871, worried about revenge
- Strengths and Ambitions:
- Austria Hungry
- Strengths and Ambitions
- large sprawling empire
- Relitivly large army 810,000 soldiers
- Weaknesses and Worries
- made up of lots of diff ethnic groups, Czechs rioting, Slavs's wanted own state. Serb's wanted independence, Russia supported Serbs
- General dislike of Franz-Joseph's government
- Small Naval Fleet, poor industry
- Strengths and Ambitions
- Italy
- Strengths and Ambitions
- Unified, constitutional monarchy.
- Mainly agriculture but industrialised in the north
- Wanted colonies and alliances, and 'flex their muscles'
- Weaknesses and Worries
- smallest army
- Not considered an industrial or military Power
- not very industrialised
- concerns around government establishment
- Strengths and Ambitions
- France
- Strengths and Ambitions
- Waned Alsace-Lorraine back
- A/L was significantly industrialised
- large army and navy
- Army = 3,700,000
- Navy = 207 ships
- Second Largest Empire
- Weakness and Worries
- was worried about Germany attacking them over A/L
- Waned Alsace-Lorraine back
- Strengths and Ambitions
- Germany
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