The Alliances of Europe on the Eve of War, 1914
The system of military alliances in Europe in 1914 — the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente — with the nationalities of Austria-Hungary marked, on the eve of the First World War.
On the eve of the First World War, Europe had hardened into two armed camps: the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, and the Triple Entente of France, Russia and Britain. This map shows those blocs, along with the patchwork of nationalities straining within Austria-Hungary — Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Croats, Serbs and others — and the Balkan flashpoint at Sarajevo, where the assassination of June 1914 would light the fuse. The United States was drawn in three years later, hastened by the Zimmermann Telegram.
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