POLS 051 Lecture 6: World War I Part 2
29 Dec 2018
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Germany"s aggressive growth of its military led to an arms race with britain from 1902-1912: they never wanted to best britain, just to be able to protect themselves from a blockade. England and france form the anglo-french entente cordiale in 1904. Russia joins the alliance in 1907, forming the triple entente. At the international level germany was fearful of its power and didn"t see an end to the amount of security they could build. At the individual level there was a difference between otto von bismarck, the leader of. In recent years he"s been compared to us president donald trump, elected in 2016. The moroccan crises of 1905 and 1911: germany challenged france over the latter"s control of morocco. Kaiser wilhelm wanted to provoke conflict between britain and france by stirring up their old colonial rivalry (1) germany pushed for morocco"s independence.
