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As we all know, from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries Kaiser Wilhelm worked tirelessly to form an alliance system in order to contain and isolate France in Europe. Feeling that French revanchism would lead to them to go to war with Germany he wanted to create and alliances with the other major powers in Europe before the French. It was for this reason he supported Russia over Austria-Hungary over their dispute in the Balkans. And the reason for the German-Italian alliance of 1898 and the London naval treaty of 1900 which was hoped would secure British neutrality in a war with France, but ended leading to the German-British alliance of 1902.

With France isolated from the Other major powers in Europe, the Germans thought peace was secured. But as we all know that didn't happen.


So how could one prevent the collapse of the Great Entente?

And WI the Great Entente didn't collapse, how would Europe look like in the early part of the 20th century.
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