BRITAIN AND THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
BRITAIN AND THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
BRITAIN AND THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
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<strong>THE</strong>MES• Balkans and Belgium June-Aug. 1914• Imperial Competition• Economic Competition• Alliance Systems•Arms Race• Britain and the European Balance of Power
Balkans and Belgium
Balkans and Belgium• Assassination of Franz Ferdinand inSarajevo, June 28
Balkans and Belgium• Ultimatums• Invasion of Belgium by Germans, violatingBelgium neutrality
Brave Little Belgium
Imperial Competition 1880-1914• Afghanistan: Britain and Russia
Imperial Competition• Sudan and West Africa: Britain and France
The Fashoda Incident 1898
Imperial Competition• Morocco: France andGermany, 1905, 1912
Imperial Competition• The Scramble for Africa
Economic Competition andRivalry• Second industrial revolution•Markets
Alliance Systems
Arms Race• Naval building program, Britain andGermany• Dreadnoughts
Britain and the EuropeanBalance of Power• Threats to imperial position• One power dominant over Europe
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