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  2. Franco-Russian Alliance - Wikipedia

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    France was interested significantly more than Russia in a military alliance and endeavored to supplement the 1891 agreement with military obligations. As a result of the negotiations, the representatives of the Russian and French general staffs signed a military convention on August 17 (August 5 in Russian calendar), 1892, which provided for ...

  3. Entente Cordiale - Wikipedia

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    Franco-Vietnamese alliance: 1777–1820 Franco-American alliance: 1778–1794 Franco-Persian alliance: 1807–1809 Franco-Prussian alliance: 1812–1813 Franco-Austrian alliance: 1812–1813 Franco-Russian alliance: 1892–1917 Entente Cordiale: 1904–present Franco-Polish alliance: 1921–1940 Franco-Italian alliance: 1935 Franco-Soviet ...

  4. France–Russia relations - Wikipedia

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    The fateful alliance: France, Russia, and the coming of the First World War (1984) online free to borrow; Kennan, George F. The decline of Bismarck's European order: Franco-Russian relations, 1875-1890 (1979). Langer, William F. The Franco-Russian Alliance, 1890-1894 (1930) Langer, William F. The Diplomacy of Imperialism: 1890-1902 (1950) pp 3 ...

  5. List of military alliances - Wikipedia

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    Military alliances shortly before World War I. Germany and the Ottoman Empire allied after the outbreak of war.. This is the list of military alliances.A military alliance is a formal agreement between two or more parties concerning national security in which the contracting parties agree to mutually protect and support one another militarily in case of a crisis that has not been identified in ...

  6. Triple Entente - Wikipedia

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    The Triple Entente, unlike the Triple Alliance or the Franco-Russian Alliance itself, was not an alliance of mutual defence. The Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907 was a key part of building a coalition as France took the lead in creating alliances with Japan, Russia, and (informally) with Britain. Japan wanted to raise a loan in Paris, so France ...

  7. Foreign alliances of France - Wikipedia

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    The foreign alliances of France have a long and complex history spanning more than a millennium. One traditional characteristic of the French diplomacy of alliances has been the "Alliance de revers" (i.e. "Rear alliance"), aiming at allying with countries situated on the opposite side or "in the back" of an adversary, in order to open a second front encircling the adversary and thus re ...

  8. Category:Military alliances involving Russia - Wikipedia

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    Military alliances involving the Soviet Union (11 P) Pages in category "Military alliances involving Russia" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.

  9. Reinsurance Treaty - Wikipedia

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    Russia, however, had not wanted to terminate the alliance. Needing new allies, Russia opened negotiations with Germany's enemy France. The resulting Franco-Russian Alliance of 1891–1892 to 1917 rapidly began to take shape. Historians consider the new alliance a major disaster for Germany and one of the long-term causes of the First World War. [1]