accession to the throne of Wilhelm the II in 1888, his dismissal of

Chancellor Otto van Bismarck two year later and therefore the breakdown

The unification of Germany, and the political greatness of Prussia and

the empire, are ascribed to the statesmanship of Bismarck. Bismarck

was the father of the German nation, he created it and he also

masterminded a plan to keep Germany safe from the enemy nations around

her. After the humiliation of the loss of Alcase and Lorraine, France

was bound to not pass away an opportunity to take revenge from Germany,

so to prevent this happening Bismarck constructed an elaborate network

One of the most important alliances of the many that were made was, the

Dreikaiserbund or the League of the the Three Emperors singed in 1872

between Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary. The most important of the

articles in the treaty was that ^in case on of the High Contracting

Parties should find itself at war with a fourth Great Power, the two

other shall maintain towards it a benevolent neutrality and shall

devote their efforts to the localisation

unless Germany intended to seek world domination. Britain knew that

empire, strong and unbeatable in every possible way. Bismarck saw this

1882, Italy joined the Dual Alliance which created the Triple

employ all her available forces to attack Germany.^ The 1891 alliance

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