In the First Moroccan Crisis in , he actually sailed to Tangiers to express his support for the sultan of Morocco against French interests. But instead of backing away from the conflict, the British rose in support of France. Again, the British backed the French, and eventually, Germany was forced to agree to recognize a French protectorate in Morocco. The two crises pushed the British and French closer together, and only hastened an eventual confrontation with the Germans.
The Italian government declared war on Turkey in because it had refused to permit the military occupation of Tripoli by Italy. Italian troops are seen here landing after the bombardment of Benghazi. The Italo-Turkish War ended with a peace treaty, but the Ottoman military left Libya and let the Italians colonize it. It was the first military conflict that featured aerial bombing , but as Fogarty notes, the real significance was that it exposed the shakiness of the Ottoman Empire and its slipping control over peripheral territories.
Soldiers resting with their weapons off a battlefield during the Balkan Wars. Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Greece, which had broken away from the Ottoman Empire during the s, formed an alliance called the Balkan League. Bulgaria ultimately was defeated. The Balkan Wars made the region even more unstable.
The two opposing sides in Europe were:. Italy, initially allied to the Central Powers, refused to be drawn into what it viewed as their war of aggression. In May , Italy joined the Entente hoping to acquire territory from Austria-Hungary and new colonial possessions, mainly in Africa.
Smaller European powers picked sides during the war, dominions and colonies contributed soldiers to their mother countries, and powerful non-European powers such as Japan and the United States would later enter the war on the Allied side.
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June set off a chain of events that led to war in early August Introduction Introduction. Historians still debate whether the European powers would have fought a continent-wide war if Ferdinand hadn't been assassinated.
But the immediate causes of the war still stemmed from the consequences of the Archduke's killing. In the days after Ferdinand's death, Austria-Hungary — shaken by the prospect that the assassination would empower nationalists in the empire's often-unstable Balkan holdings — issued an ultimatum to Serbia demanding that Austria be allowed to send agents into the country to investigate possible connections between the kille and the Serbian government.
Serbia stalled and then mobilized its military. That's when superpower dynamics kicked in: Serbia was allied with Russia, which had a military alliance with France. Meanwhile, Austria-Hungary had an alliance with Germany, which was in turn allied with the Ottoman Empire.
By the end of July , Europe's military powers were mobilizing and the the continent was at war. What could have been a containable crisis stemming from the Austro-Hungarian empire's weakening control over its periphery rapidly morphed into a conflict that killed millions.
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