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Agadir Crisis (1911)
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1 Jul 1911 — Germany sends a gunboat to Morocco’s Atlantic coast to demand compensation for France’s takeover of the country. Britain warns Berlin in public, the crisis ends in November with a slice of French Congo for Germany, and German nationalists call the bargain a humiliation.
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- Bosnian crisis and the Balkan Wars (chapter 2 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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