... 1862, and now Germany, wanted to keep France isolated to prevent the recovery of Alsace and Lorraine. The Development of the alliance system The Triple Alliance was the treaty by which Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy promised (May 20, 1882) to support each other militarily in the event of an attack against any of them by two or more great powers. Germany and Italy additionally agreed to support one another in the event of attack by France. In an extra statement, however, Italy specified that her undertakings could not be regarded as being directed against the United Kingdom. Shortly after renewing the Alliance in June 1902, Italy secretly extended a similar guarantee to France, successfully cancelling out her part in the alliance. Italy's partial loyalty to the German-Austrian Dual Alliance was started partly by anger at France's May 1881 seizure of Tunisia, which many Italians had seen as a potential colony. When Germany ...

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