Alliances and politics had also gotten in the way and caused problems that would soon bubble over and cause world war 1 to go into effect. Germany had made alliances with Austria/Hungary and Italy. But Italy had gone behind Germany’s back and made a secret alliance with France despite the agreement with Germany saying they’d protect each other if France ever came after them in a rage of war. France in response to Germany’s new alliances joined up with Russia and formed an alliance. Following the Russia/France alliance in 1892 was when France signed an agreement with Britain in 1904. The “triple entetes” as formed by Russian, France, and Britain in 1907 which made Germany feel like their existence and power of region was being threatened by this new surrounding alliance. …show more content…
European countries like France and Britain were lucky and created large worldwide empires as well as making them very rich while others such as Russia and Germany had fixations of an endless wanting of creating a large empire for themselves but weren’t as lucky which created jealousy. Their jealousy lead to competition and conflict between the European countries.
Europe had become ready for war as each country held onto their sanity with one small strand. The predicament in Europe as becoming tense with all the conflict between countries because of the need for large empires or the need for secret alliances to keep themselves “safe” from each other. Internal politics too were in the way and adding on to the friction between the European countries as well as the disliking and distrust between each of these European