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Entente and was
The UK was allied with France ( by the Entente Cordiale ) and Russia, and when the First World War broke out in 1914, the British Army sent the British Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium to prevent Germany from occupying these countries.
To enlist diplomatic support, Italy joined Germany and Austria-Hungary to form the Triple Alliance in 1882, which was the first formal war-camp in Europe, the second being the Triple Entente formed in 1907.
With Woodrow Wilson's support, Polish independence was officially endorsed in June 1918 by the Entente Powers, on whose fronts sizable armies of Polish volunteers had been mobilized and fought.
When Bulgaria entered the war as a German ally in October 1915, Venizelos invited Entente forces into Greece ( the Salonika Front ), for which he was again dismissed by Constantine.
France was one of the Triple Entente powers in World War I, fighting alongside the United Kingdom, Russia, and their allies against the Central Powers.
Although critical of the Tsar, General Kornilov felt that Russia, as part of the Triple Entente, was committed to continue the war against the Central Powers, and he shared the widespread belief of some Russians that after the February Revolution the country was descending into anarchy and that military defeat would be disastrous for Russia.
Recognition by the United Kingdom in the 1904 Entente Cordiale of France's " sphere of influence " in Morocco provoked a German reaction ; the " crisis " of 1905 – 1906 was resolved at the Algeciras Conference ( 1906 ), which formalized France's " special position " and entrusted policing of Morocco jointly to France and Spain.
In 1916 Romania entered World War I on the Entente side, after the Entente agreed to recognize Romanian rights over Transylvania, which was part of Austria-Hungary until that time.
Britain was part of the Triple Entente with France and Russia, which confronted the Central Powers of Germany, Austria and Italy.
The average American's sympathies, on the other hand, if the feelings of the vast majority of the nation had been correctly interpreted, was with the Allied ( Entente ) Powers.
The final Entente offensive of the spring was fought at Artois, with the goal of trying to capture Vimy Ridge.
Following the First World War of the early 20th century, the western part of Rhineland was occupied by Entente forces, then demilitarized under the Treaty of Versailles.
Serbia, with its campaign, was a major Balkan Entente Power which contributed significantly to the Allied victory in the Balkans in November 1918, especially by helping France force Bulgaria's capitulation.
Serbia was classified as a minor Entente power.
It was decided that for the next year, simultaneous offensives would be mounted by the Russians in the east, the Italians ( who had by now joined the Entente ) in the Alps and the Anglo-French on the Western Front, thereby assailing the Central Powers from all sides.
The fact that the French and British lacked an overall commander was hardly a benefit for the Entente.
As British historian Gary Sheffield said, " The battle of the Somme was not a victory in itself, but without it the Entente would not have emerged victorious in 1918 ".
He was depressed by his failure and dismayed by Poland's disregard for the Entente.
The Entente powers decided on a two-stage referendum, of which the first stage, the Carinthian Plebiscite was held on October 10, 1920 to determine the fate of Carinthia.
The memorial to the 1, 770 prisoners who died at Norman Cross was erected in 1914 by the Entente Cordiale Society beside the Great North Road.
The United States entered the war on the side of the Entente Powers in 1917 and by mid-1918 had an army of around half a million men, this rising to a million by the time the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918.
More so than in previous wars, military strategy in World War I was directed by the grand strategy of a coalition of nations ; the Entente on one side and the Central Powers on the other.

Entente and negotiated
As British Foreign Secretary, he signed the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance at his London home ( now the Lansdowne Club ) and negotiated the 1904 Anglo-French Entente Cordiale with the French foreign minister, Theophile Delcassé.

Entente and between
* The Entente cordiale, 1904 between France and the United Kingdom
* The Anglo-Russian Entente, 1907 between the United Kingdom and Russia
** The Triple Entente, an alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia
* The Little Entente, 1920 to 1938 between Czechoslovakia, Romania, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
* The Baltic Entente, 1934 to 1939 between Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
* The Conseil de l ' Entente, 1959 between Côte d ' Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger, and ( in 1966 ) Togo
* Entente frugale, cooperation between the British and French governments, announced in November 2010
** The Entente Cordiale is signed between the UK and France.
* Treaty of 4 August 1916, the treaty of alliance between Romania and the Entente
Following a visit to the Pope in Rome, this trip helped create the atmosphere for the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale, an agreement delineating British and French colonies in North Africa, and ruling out any future war between the two countries.
Hostilities formally ended " at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month ," in accordance with the Armistice, signed by representatives of Germany and the Entente between 5: 12 and 5: 20 that morning.
For four years, under the command of King Albert I of Belgium, the Belgian army guarded the important sector of the Allied left wing between Nieuwpoort, on the coast, and Ypres with the help of the forces of the Entente but did not participate in any of the major Allied offensives, deemed unnecessarily expensive and unnecessary in men by the King of the Belgians.
This behaviour provoked a split between the monarch and his prime minister, Eleftherios Venizelos, who was convinced of the need to support the Triple Entente, so as to incorporate the Greek minorities of the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans into the Greek kingdom by the end of the war.
The Triple Alliance was the military alliance between Germany, Austria – Hungary, and Italy, ( as opposing the Triple Entente which consisted of an alliance between Britain, France and Russia ), that lasted from 1882 until the start of World War I in 1914.
As for Fashoda, while it was a confrontation, it led to Britain and France eventually discussing their rival colonial goals, and agreeing to support each other's sphere of influence – the first step to the Entente Cordiale between the countries in 1904.
Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1922, he was an avid supporter of the Little Entente, formed between Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia to fend off Hungarian irredentist claims ( Hungary claimed Transylvania, which Romania had been awarded after World War I ) and prevent the Habsburg dynasty from returning to power in Central Europe.
The Sykes – Picot Agreement, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret agreement between the governments of the United Kingdom and France, with the assent of Russia, defining their proposed spheres of influence and control in Middle East should the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
British backing for France during the crisis reinforced the Entente between the two countries ( and with Russia as well ) and added to Anglo-German estrangement, deepening the divisions which would culminate in World War I.
The Fashoda incident was the last serious colonial dispute between Britain and France, and its classic diplomatic solution is considered by most historians to be the precursor of the Entente Cordiale.
The Triple Entente ( from French entente " good will ") was the name given to the alliance between France ( lead by Georges Clemenceau ), Britain ( lead by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ), and Russia ( lead by Nicholas II ) after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente on August 31, 1907.
Italian agents of influence hesitated between Iorga and the Iron Guard, but the Fascist International sought to include Iorga among its Romanian patrons ; Iorga himself expressed regret that the Italian regime was primarily an ally of revanchist Hungary, but applauded the 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, and, to the alarm of France, repeatedly argued that an Italian alliance was more secure than the Little Entente.
By 15 January 1919, the rebellious Polish forces managed to take control of most of the Province of Posen, and engaged in heavy fighting with the regular German army and the forces of the Grenzschutz, up until the renewal of the truce between the Entente and Germany on 16 February, which affected the Wielkopolska or Posen Province part of the front line.

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