WWI · TURNING POINT ·
First Moroccan Crisis (1905)
On the WWI map as “The Kaiser at Tangier”
31 Mar 1905 — Wilhelm II rides through Tangier and declares his support for Moroccan independence, to test the new Anglo-French entente. At the Algeciras conference in 1906 only Austria-Hungary backs Germany, and the test meant to split Britain from France pushes them together.
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- Alliance system before WWI (chapter 1 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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