Despite the twofold France and Russia had a common interest to stop England in her colonial developments in Africa and Central Asia, Russia and Austria-Hungary decided to mute their differences in the Balkans and that the status quo to their advantage to both, by that time Russia was more interested in the Far East, Japan had defeated China and the Russians backed by France and Germany called for the revision of the Japan Peace and yielded taking the Russian front. By 1900 Germany had grown exponentially, not only demographically but also in trade, had surpassed Britain in steel production and had launched an expansion of trade ties and its marina, which warned England to overcome their isolation well regulated colonial conflicts with France and allowed the protectorate over Morocco in return for it to refrain from any attempt on Egypt, signed one with Japan that was effective only if it was attacked by two powers, all this caused a significant diplomatic failure for Germany. Serbia would become a national center Yugoslavia to the consummation of the king's death at the hands of the secret society The Black Hand, this was understood to Austria to Servia was the enemy that threatened the disintegration to which should annihilate and submit, the Russian defeat against Japan (1904-1905 ) dashed the expectations of Russian expansion eastward and weaken the Franco-Russian alliance, far away from Russia's Far East looks to the Balkans again and decides to protect Serbia. Between 1905 and 1914 was going to attend five crisis and increasingly severe belonging to the Austro-Russian conflict over the Balkans and the Franco-German conflict disputes colonial Africa was a hot topic, as well as the progressive disintegration of the Empire and Ottoman Turkish, the same was true in the East, but certainly strong Balkan conflict would be very nationalistic, this because all countries had agreed on two by two state government departments and overseas caps so the crisis of 1914 without doubt originated in the Balkans, crisis triggers the Great War, was the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, the straw that broke the camel as the rule uses this fact to annihilation of Servia, Germany fearful of being isolated and losing support Rejoinder decide although Austria did not suit him and had advised the other not to attack Servia and is to be protected Russia and the latter to be an ally of France was already agreed a general war, Britain was not tied by alliance felt affected their vital interests when Belgium refused to threaten its neutrality British tradition that no power is installed in Antwerp.
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