Dual Alliance
February 18, 1879
Bismarck, alarmed by cooling Russo-German relations after the Congress of Berlin, signed a defensive alliance with Austria-Hungary. It was meant to be secret and defensive; it became the anchor of German foreign policy and, in 1914, one of the cables that dragged Germany into a world war over a Balkan assassination.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.