Causes of the First World War

  • Triple Alliance

    Agreement with Austria-Hungary and Italy
  • German Empire offered to help Morocco against France

  • Period: to

    Moroccan crises

  • Algeciras conference

  • Triple Entete

    A mutual aid pact signed by Britain, Russia, and France
  • Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary

  • Germans sent gunboats to the port of Agadir

  • Period: to

    Balkan wars

    Result of the tensions between Balkans and ended with Serbia as victor
  • Assasination of Franz Ferdinand

    The last trigger of the First World War