Road to World War I
1894–1914 · Event
The alliance system, imperial crises and arms races that divided Europe into armed camps, from the Franco-Russian Alliance to the outbreak of war.
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More from World War I
- July Crisis 1914 (1914)
- Trench warfare on the Western Front (period) (1914)
- Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia (1914)
- Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
- Spring Offensive (Kaiserschlacht) (1918)
- Fourteen Points speech (1918)
- Hundred Days Offensive (1918)
- First use of tanks in combat (1916)
Around 1894
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Second Boer War (1899)
- Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
- Wright Brothers' first powered flight (1903)
- Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa (1884)
- Charlie Chaplin (1889)
- T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) (1888)