Germany. Germany was newly unified, and was beating the European

powers in population and Industry. France wanted to recover the

Alsace-Lorraine. Britain was a country used to being on the ocean, so

they felt threatened by Germany's colonial expansion and William II's

insisting on a large navy. Russia and Austria feared pressure on their

unstable empires. In 1887 William II refused to renew the Reinsurance

treaty with Russia, but continued the Triple Alliance of Germany,

Austria-Hungary, and Italy. In 1894 Russia made an alliance with

France, and Great Britain settled it's differences with France in the

Entente Cordiale in 1904 forming the Triple Entente.

The assassination, with Serbian Knowledge, of the liberal

Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinan in Sarajevo in June 1914 was the

spark that set off the war. Germany assured Austria full support,

which resulted in an Austrian ultimatum that Serbia could not accept.

Austria declared war on Serbia. Russia mobilized to defend Serbia,

then Germany declared war on Russia. Germany also declared war on

France. Germany wanted a quick defeat of France. To avoid the French

reparations for their losses and to see that Germany was never in a

familiarly known, were dim. For most Germans the government was

Uprising of the Communist Sparticists in 1919 under Karl Liebknecht

encouraged industry. Stresemann introduced a new currency, and paved

The Russians were in the middle of several revolutions so they were

British and French Miraculously turned back the Germans at the Battle

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