Bismarckian Alliance
The relations between the Great Powers in Europe changed a lot with the
accession to the throne of Wilhelm the II in 1888, his dismissal of
Chancellor Otto van Bismarck two year later and therefore the breakdown
of the Bismarckian Alliance System.
The unification of Germany, and the political greatness of Prussia and
the empire, are ascribed to the statesmanship of Bismarck. Bismarck
was the father of the German nation, he created it and he also
masterminded a plan to keep Germany safe from the enemy nations around
her. After the humiliation of the loss of Alcase and Lorraine, France
was bound to not pass away an opportunity to take revenge from Germany,
so to prevent this happening Bismarck constructed an elaborate network
of alliances.
One of the most important alliances of the many that were made was, the
Dreikaiserbund or the League of the the Three Emperors singed in 1872
between Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary. The most important of the
articles in the treaty was that ^in case on of the High Contracting
Parties should find itself at war with a fourth Great Power, the two
other shall maintain towards it a benevolent neutrality and shall
devote their efforts to the localisation of the conflict^. But Russia
and Austria-Hungary drew suspicious of each other over conflicts in the
Balkans in 1887 and the League fell apart. So to replace that lose
Bismarck drew up the secret Dual Alliance with Austria in 1879, it was
a defensive alliance against Russian in case she attacks Austria. In
1882, Italy joined the Dual Alliance which created the Triple
Alliance. By 1887 Bismarck succeeded to bind Russian in a separate
alliance which was called the Reinsurance Treaty. Also Germany kept
friendly acquaintances with Britain so that such a powerful nation with
not be against Germany. This way, Bismarck^s plan succeeded and now
France was truly friendless, powerless and isolated.
Kaiser Wilhelm the II had a plan called ^Weltpolitik^ for Germany which
meant that he wanted Germany to be a world power with a large colonial
empire, strong and unbeatable in every possible way. Bismarck saw this
as a threat to the country^s peace he has aintained for twenty years
and his idea was that Germany should remain a land-based, peace-loving
European power as she has always been. The clash of ideas and values
between the thirty one year old, young Kaiser and the seventy five year
old chancellor led to Bismarck being forced to resign by Kaiser Wilhelm
II in 1890. Then the Kaiser appointed Count Georg Leo Caprivi
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