[Origins of World War I]
Before class
* Read Palmer, 657-666
* Key terms
Triple Alliance
entente cordiale
Triple Entente
Bosnia
Sarajevo
* Key questions
1. Explain how by 1894 Europe had become divided into two opposed camps. What
developments led the British to abandon their "splendid isolation"?
2. How were European international affairs after 1905 affected by the crises over (a)
Morocco, (b) the Balkans, and (c) the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
3. Assess the responsibility of each of the countries involved in the events of 1914.
* Key quotation
The alliance system was an obvious cause of the war, but it was only a symptom of deeper
trouble--the world had an international economy but a national polity.
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