A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

872 Ch. 22 • The Great War in Britain anxious, although Britain still accounted for about 45 percent of world investment. It als ...

Entangling Alliances 873 The First Moroccan Crisis (1905) The First Moroccan Crisis solidified the rapprochement between Britain ...

874 Ch. 22 • The Great War advantage of the collapse of the shah’s authority, the two powers divided Persia (Iran) into three zo ...

The Europe of Two Armed Campsy 1905—1914 875 increasing care and were attentive to the capacity of their armed forces. Thus, per ...

876 Ch. 22 • The Great War Map 22.2 The Balkans, 1914 The Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Balkan states, including territory acq ...

The Europe of Two Armed Camps, 1905—1914 877 under the control of European administrators. The Ottoman governor of Egypt was con ...

878 Ch. 22 • The Great War straits of Constantinople to Russian ships, and perhaps only Russian ships. The Austro-Hungarian gove ...

The Europe of Two Armed Camps, 1905-1914 879 France, Serbia, and possibly—given its announced interests in Tyrolean Aus­ tria an ...

880 Ch. 22 • The Great War the kindling for another international flare-up. Late in the year, Italy invaded Libya, part of the O ...

The Final Crisis 881 “The Vortex—Will the powers be drawn in?” This image of the Balkan Wars, 1912— 1913, had a ring of propheti ...

882 Ch. 22 • The Great War nationalists assassinated the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria. Europe’s diplomatic house of car ...

The Final Crisis 883 he happened to be only a few feet from the archduke’s car. He opened fire, killing Francis Ferdinand and hi ...

884 Cm. 22 • Thl Great War within forty-eight hours. Grey, the British foreign secretary, called the ulti­ matum “the most formi ...

The Final Crisis 885 Franco-Prussian War of 1870—1871. German troops would march through the flat terrain of Belgium and the Net ...

886 Ch. 22 • The Great War The Serb government therefore ordered military mobilization on July 25, 1914, confident of full Russi ...

The Final Crisis 887 Bethmann-Hollweg now sent a sealed envelope to the German ambas­ sador in Brussels, which was to be present ...

888 Ch. 22 • The Great War The relentless logic of the entangling alliances and military plans pro­ pelled Europe to war, as if ...

The Outbreak of War^889 (Left) French soldiers depart for war. (Right) British men surge toward a recruiting office. Opening Hos ...

890 Ch. 22 • The Great War Old and new combat in World War I. encircle the French capital. Both the French and German high comma ...

The Outbreak of War 891 Map 22.3 The German Advance, 1914 The Germans moved quickly into Belgium and France, largely following t ...