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    The document provides a timeline and context around the origins and key events leading up to World War 1. It outlines the alliances and competing interests of several European powers including Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Britain, France, and Russia. Tensions arose due to crises in Morocco in 1905 and 1911 and nationalist conflicts in the Balkans. The immediate trigger of World War 1 was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo in 1914 by a Serbian nationalist.

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    The document provides a timeline and context around the origins and key events leading up to World War 1. It outlines the alliances and competing interests of several European powers including Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Britain, France, and Russia. Tensions arose due to crises in Morocco in 1905 and 1911 and nationalist conflicts in the Balkans. The immediate trigger of World War 1 was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo in 1914 by a Serbian nationalist.

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    WORLD WAR 1

    TIMELINE 

    Alliances Bosnian Crisis Murder at Sarajevo

    1906 & 1911 1912

    1904 & 1907 1908 1914

    Moroccan Crisis Balkan Wars (1912-13)


    INTERESTS OF THE EUROPEAN
    POWERS

     GERMANY  AUSTRO-  OTTOMAN  BRITAIN  FRANCE  RUSSIA


    •  To become world HUNGARY EMPIRE •  Less concerned •  Protect itself against •  Its own weakness
    power. •  Retain ethnically •  To regain its lost about Russia. Germany. after defeat in Russo-
    •  World Class Navy. diverse territories. glory. •  Worried about rising •  Get Alsace-Lorraine Japanese War.
    •  Insecurity about •  Resisting powerful •  To get back lost German might. back. •  Pan-Slavisim &
    encirclement by Serbia. territories. •   Peaceful colonies. rivalry with Austro-
    enemies. •  Russia's support to Hungary.
    •  Concerned Serbs. •  Worried about
    about Russian arms rising Germany.
    build-up.
    • Greater Germany.
     AUSTRO-  CENTRA
     GERMAN  OTTOMA
    HUNGAR L
    Y N EMPIRE
    Y POWERS

    V/S

     OTHERS
    (ITALY,  ALLIED
     BRITAIN  FRANCE  RUSSIA
    JAPAN, POWERS
    USA)
    MOROCCAN CRISIS 
    MOROCCAN CRISIS (1905) MOROCCAN CRISIS (1911)

    • Fez rebellion.
    • Independent Morocco under Sultan
    • Germany's response- sending Panther
    Moulay al Hasan. to Agadir.
    • Abdul Aziz-weak ruler. • Another Conference happened- Nov,1911.
    • 1899- French claims over Morocco. • Germany recognized Morocco as French
    • Other powers supported France. protectorate & Germany got French
    Congo.
    • German interference. • Secret agreement between Britain &
    • Algeciras Conference (1906). France- patrol Mediterranean & Royal
    Navy defending Atlantic & North Sea
    • Germany humiliated.                            coast.
    MURDER
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?
    AT v=IIK9Lkf02TE

    SARAJEVO

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