Triple Entente: As Germany grew more powerful, the balance of power between the nations of Europe became unstable. In 1907 Britain, France and Russia signed the Triple Entente, an alliance ...
The Entente Cordiale put these to bed ... with growing fears over Germany's rising militant powers and founding of the Triple Alliance, a secret pact with Austria-Hungary and Italy.
Learn more about some of the causes of World War One with this activity. Germany was a relatively new country, formed in 1871. They had ambitions to grow an empire to compete with France and the UK.