AP euro notes
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European History [1]
Sally Wu 3/13/10 Roads to War Government spending on what people called the arms race had started European economies. Competing Alliances and Clashing Ambitions The Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy vs. France and Russia (1890). Constant rivals in Africa, Britain, and France edged to the brink of war in 1898 over competing claims to Fashoda, a town in the Sudan. They entered into secret agreements, the first which recognized British claims in Egypt and French claims in Morocco. This agreement marked the British-French alliance called the Entente Cordiale. Germany?s Imperial Demands