In both World Wars, people assume the Allied Powers had a crushing advantage and would have inevitably won the conflicts.
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.
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.