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THE WAR SCARES OF 1904-1914. 1904/05: The Entente cordiale leads to the First Morocco Crisis 1907: Anglo-Russian Entente 1908: Bosnian Annexation Crisis 1911: Second Morocco Crisis 1912: First Balkan War 1913: Second Balkan War December 1913: Liman von Sanders Affair
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THE WAR SCARES OF 1904-1914 1904/05: The Entente cordiale leads to the First Morocco Crisis 1907: Anglo-Russian Entente 1908: Bosnian Annexation Crisis 1911: Second Morocco Crisis 1912: First Balkan War 1913: Second Balkan War December 1913: Liman von Sanders Affair June 28, 1914: The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
THE BALANCE OF INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH BETWEENGERMANY AND BRITAIN SWUNG SHARPLY BEFORE 1914:Annual steel production (1000s of metric tons) BUT GREAT BRITAIN REMAINED THE WORLD LEADER IN COMMERCE AND FINANCE: Shares of World Foreign Trade
In 1898 Germany announced a plan to build 3 battleships a year. Wilhelm II: “Germany must wield Neptune’s trident as well as Jupiter’s scepter.” In response Britain launched the H.M.S. Dreadnought in 1906: It carried ten 12-inch guns and 11-inch armor plate, and cruised at over 20 m.p.h.
Admiral Sir John Fisher (at left),First Sea Lord (1904-10), modernized the British fleet Fisher converted the young Liberal, Sir Winston Churchill, into a champion of naval spending by 1911
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1906-14) demanded “preventive war” German Chancellor Theobold von Bethmann Hollweg (1909-17) sought improved relations with Great Britain
Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918; ruled 1894-1917) Sergei Sazonov, Russian foreign minister, 1910-16
Leopold von Berchtold: ambassador to Russia, 1907-12, foreign minister 1912-15 Kaiser & King Franz Josef I, born in 1830, reigned 1848-1916
Raymond Poincaré (1860-1934), leader of the French center-right, premier in 1912/13, President of France, 1913-1920.In public he declared this his generation had “no other reason for existence than the hope of recovering the lost provinces” (i.e., Alsace-Lorraine).
British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey (1905-16), who waited until July 29, 1914, to warn the German ambassador that Britain would side with France and Russia