what are the political alliances?
Germany and Austria-Hungary formed the 1879 Dual Alliance and this became the Triple Alliance when Italy joined in 1882.
World War I
For much of the 19th century, the major European powers had tried to maintain a tenuous balance of power among themselves, resulting in a complex network of political and military alliances. The biggest challenges to this were Britain's withdrawal into so-called splendid isolation, the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the post-1848 rise of Prussia under Otto von Bismarck. Victory in the 1866 Austro-Prussian War established Prussian hegemony in Germany, while victory over France in the 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War unified the German states into a German Reich under Prussian leadership. French desire for revenge over the defeat of 1871, known as revanchism, and the recovery of Alsace-Lorraine became a principal object of French policy for the next forty years (see French–German enmity).

In 1873, to isolate France and avoid a war on two fronts, Bismarck negotiated the League of the Three Emperors (German: "Dreikaiserbund") between Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany. Concerned by Russi
who was the president for most of the 1950s Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower  served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. who is harry s. truman? 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953 where was he born? Lamar, Missouri which was did he take part in? World War I - he rejoined Battery B, successfully recruiting new soldiers for the expanding unit, for which he was elected as their first lieutenant. how was his career before he became vice president? He worked as a timekeeper, as a clerk, and in the army. when did this aforesaid war take place? 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War I [SEP] Political and military alliances
For much of the 19th century, the major European powers had tried to maintain a tenuous balance of power among themselves, resulting in a complex network of political and military alliances. The biggest challenges to this were Britain's withdrawal into so-called splendid isolation, the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the post-1848 rise of Prussia under Otto von Bismarck. Victory in the 1866 Austro-Prussian War established Prussian hegemony in Germany, while victory over France in the 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War unified the German states into a German Reich under Prussian leadership. French desire for revenge over the defeat of 1871, known as revanchism, and the recovery of Alsace-Lorraine became a principal object of French policy for the next forty years (see French–German enmity).