File:5 Major Treaties & Alliances in the Build Up to World War One.

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The First World War is often interpreted as fought between two major alliances – the Triple Entente between France, Britain and Russia, and the Dual Alliance linking Germany and Austria-Hungary.

But this oversimplifies the alliances, treaties and agreements that developed throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and drew the Great Powers, along with numerous other countries, into war.