How did alliances work?

By: Emma Kious

How did alliances work?

Alliances during WWI

There were two different alliances during World War I (or also known as the Great War)

• Triple Alliance

• Triple Entente

Alliances

Triple alliance Forged in 1882

Included:• Germany• Italy• Austria-Hungary

Triple

alliance

•Germany•Italy•Austria-Hungary

Triple Entente The triple Entente included:

• France• Russia• Great Britain

It was originally called the Dual Entente in 1884, with only France and Russia but in 1907, Great Britain came in and thus was born the Triple entente

Triple

alliance

•Germany•Italy•Austria-Hungary

Colonies Colonies often helped their country,

creating a lot of advantages

For instance, Great Britain, that had a lot of big colonies

Spain

Germany

Italy

JapanUnited statesOttoman empire

Netherlands

Portugal

France

Colonizing countriesBritain

Colonial empires in 1917

Colonized countries

BritainFranceSpainPortugalGermany

ItalyNetherlandsJapanUnited statesOttoman empire

NATO, CSDPSCO, CSTOPSCSADC

Alliances today

NATO (4 April 1949)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization includes:• United States• Canada• parts of Western Europe• Northern Europe• Central Europe • Eastern Europe• Turkey

CSDP (December

2000) Common Security and Defence Policy

includes• Sweden• Hungary• Slovakia• Austria• Estonia• Lithuania• Bulgaria• Ireland• Latvia

SCO (26 April 1996)

Shanghai Cooperation Organization includes :• China• Kazakhstan• Kyrgyzstan• Russia• Tajikistan• Uzbekistan

CSTO (15 May 1992)

Collective Security Treaty Organization includes :• Russia• Armenia• Belarus• Kazakhstan• Kyrgyzstan• Tajikistan

PSC (26 December 2003)

Peace and Security Council includes: • Zimbabwe• Kenya• Equatorial Guinea• Nigeria• Libya• Angola• Lesotho• Djibouti

All these countries are either elected to serve for 2 years, or 3 years

• Tanzania• Cameroon• Congo• Guinea• Ivory Coast• Gambia• Egypt

SADC (8 December 2004)

Union of South American Nations includes: • almost the whole south American countries

Resources En.wikipedia.org (1853). List of

military alliances - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [online] Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_alliances [Accessed: 23 Jan 2013].

Beck, R. et al. (n.d.). World history - patterns of interactions. New York: New York edition.