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American civil war begins
America's civil war really symbolized the tension that can come about over opinions. The civil war begins at Fort Sumter and more than 4,000 rounds of ammunition were launched at the fort. Finally Major Robert Anderson surrendored the fort. -
first republic of spain
The first Republic of Spain was very short lived, however it did show how fast things can change. The Spanish people had wanted a republic for years, but as soon as they began to really try to change it to a Republic, it happened. It only lasted for a couple of years before the government decided a Democrat was really needed. -
Dual allience was created
The dual allience was an allience between Germany and Australia. It was proposed because Bismarck wanted to limit the amount of death in the world. Both countries feared the possibility of Russia invading their country. -
Creation of the triple allience
It was a secret extension of the dual allience which was between Germany and Australia. Except now there was a third country, Italy. Italy joined the alliance because they saw how Russia tended to leave the alliance alone, and when Russia is the greatest foce thats a good thing -
New Zealand becomes the first country to allow women to vote
New Zealand was the first self-governed country to allow women to vote. The governmaent felt like if women are what men need the most in life, then why can't they decide how they live? Every other country, including Britian and the United States, didn't allow women to vote until after the first World War. -
alliance of Russia and France
The alliance between Russia and France really set a mile stone in the pre war era. France saw Germany, Australia, and Italy trying to hide from Russia, so instead France joined them. France figured that if enough countries joined one alliance, one country could turn on another one in the same alliance -
The first Moroccan Crisis
At this time France had began to hate Germany, the crisis definetly didn't help anything. What happened was the Kaiser came, told sultant to rule Moroccan, and the government ended uo ignoring the French laws and reforms. This fueled the French's anger to a point beyond belief, therefor they began to train troops -
The triple entente
If you haven't noticed, alliances played a crutial role in the pre war era because lets face it, no one wanted to fight. The triple entente stood for friendship, understanding, and agreeement. This ensured that countries, no matter what alliance, willnot began a war based on ego's or opinions. -
Germany declares war on Russia
Four days after Australia declared war on Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia. This essentially lit the fire for World War 1, this would end up resluting in one of the greatest losses of life the world had ever seen. -
Britian declares war on Germany
It did take a while, but Britian finally decided to declare war on the Germans. The bottomline is that Britian had sat on the fence too long, and the longer your indecisive the more you lose alliances.
