... and competitive attempt by western European to colonize Africa. The Moroccan crisis between France and Germany proved to be one "testing ground" for French allies Britain and Russia. While this "test" implemented by Germany never materialized into an actual battle, it was a telling and tense situation while it existed, and Germany was able to then gauge these powerful allies" abilities and ... of all the above reasons, the existence of alliances was the biggest contributor to the actual outbreak of a large-scale war involving many countries. The assassination may have been the spark, bu...

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