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The European alliance systems are often seen as a major cause of World War One. On one side, you had the dual alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary, and on the other, you had the Triple Entente between France, Russia, and Great Britain.

But it wasn’t a simple case of one side declaring war on the other; indeed, the Triple Entente wasn’t really an ‘alliance’ at all, and the picture was further complicated by countries on the periphery of these two major systems.

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