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The Concert of Europe certainly ended with the outbreak of World War I in 1914, [2] when the Concert proved ultimately unable to handle the collapse of Ottoman power in the Balkans, hardening of the alliance system into two firm camps (the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente), and the feeling among many civilian and military leaders on both ...
Great Northern War: Hanoveranian–British–Russian alliance 1717 Second Triple Alliance: Alliance between Kingdom of Great Britain, the United Provinces and France. 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz [note 71] Ends the war between Austria and the Ottoman Empire. Treaty of Baden: Ends the Toggenburg War among the Swiss cantons (second treaty). 1720
[200] [201] Lord Salisbury grew restless with the term in the 1890s, as his "third and final government found the policy of 'splendid isolation' increasingly less splendid," especially as France broke from its own isolation and formed an alliance with Russia.
Splendid isolation is a term used to describe the 19th-century British diplomatic practice of avoiding permanent alliances from 1815 to 1902. The concept developed as early as 1822, when Britain left the post-1815 Concert of Europe, and continued until the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the 1904 Entente Cordiale with France.
The Triple Alliance was a defensive military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. It was formed on 20 May 1882 [ 1 ] and renewed periodically until it expired in 1915 during World War I .
Mikheil Saakashvili elected as the new President of Georgia. May 2004: The Adjara Revolution restored semi-independent region under control of the central government of Georgia. August 2008: Russo-Georgian War. October 2012: Georgian Dream defeats the United National Movement party of incumbent President Mikheil Saakashvili in the parliamentary ...
Teresa Hardy, an organizer with voting rights group The Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, led a prayer before the caravan set out for a polling site at a nearby mall. Black church ...
The League of the Three Emperors or Union of the Three Emperors (German: Dreikaiserbund) was an alliance between the German, Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, from 1873 to 1887. Chancellor Otto von Bismarck took full charge of German foreign policy from 1870 to his dismissal in 1890.