Military Alliances

• Military Alliance was a formal agreement made between two or more countries to help each other militarily in war times.
• In 1879, German and Austro-Hungary became allies.
• After three years in1882 Italy joined them, then called Triple Alliance.
• Later included Ottoman Turkey and was renamed Central Powers.
• But Italy left the alliance in 1915 and joined the Triple Entente.
• The other Military Alliance was formed between France and Russia in 1892 later in 1907 including Britain and formed Triple Entente.
• Then, this alliance was renamed Allied power after being joined by more than 20 countries.
• Thus, Europe began to divide in to two military allied groups.