Pre WWI alliances The relations between the Great Powers in Europe changed a lot with the accession to the throne of Wilhelm the II in 1888, his dismissal of Chancellor Otto van Bismarck two year later and therefore the breakdown of the Bismarckian Alliance System. The unification of Germany, and the political greatness of Prussia and the empire, are ascribed to the statesmanship of Bismarck. Bismarck was the father of the German nation, he created it …showed first 75 words of 1332 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1332 total…France and Russia, they created the Triple Entente. Finally, the bi-polar structure that slowly developed between the Triple Entente (France, Russia and Great Britain) and the Triple Alliance (Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy) divided Europe into two powerful rival camps. So the reakdown of the Bismarckian Alliance System led to the formation of new alignments between the Great Powers of Britain, France and Russia while Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary made another alliance against those Great Powers.