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The agreements directly concerned colonies and also terminated British neutrality towards Europe. In 1904, France and the United Kingdom signed several agreements referred to as the Entente Cordiale. Agreements are Signedĭespite the signing of Reinsurance Treaty, the Russian leadership was very alarmed at the country’s diplomatic isolationist policies and therefore entered into the Franco-Russian Alliance in 1894. This ended the alliance of Germany and Russia. However, the alliance between France and Russia and Bismarck’s exclusion from the German financial market led to the treaty not being renewed. The treaty assured both parties that they would all remain neutral towards each other in case a war broke out. In efforts to stop the Russian government from being allies with France, Bismarck decided to enter into a treaty with Russia. This led to League of the Three Emperors never being renewed in 1887. The Treaty of Berlin, signed in 1878, along with the situation in the Balkans left Russia feeling quite cheated of her own gains made during the Russo-Turkish War. With the rising nationalism and the decline of the Ottoman Empire, most Ottoman provinces really struggled for independence. The tensions were mostly over the Balkans. After a while, the league faced several challenges with the rising tensions between Austria-Hungarian and Russian Empire. The German chancellor feared France might attempt to regain its 1871 losses. This alliance was established in 1873 between Kaiser Wilhelm I, Tsar Alexander II, and Franz Joseph I as a part of Otto Von Bismarck’s plot to diplomatically isolate France. Previously, Russia had been member of the League of the Three Emperors with Germany and Austria-Hungary. At the beginning of the First World War in 1914, all three members joined the treaty as Allies against Austria-Hungary and Germany. This alliance of three powers was supplemented by some agreements with Japan and Portugal and constituted a very powerful counterweight to the Triple Alliance of Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy. The Triple Entente was an alliance that linked France, Russia, and Britain just after signing of Anglo-Russian Entente on August 31st, 1907.