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Date May 1882 - May 1915
Participants Austria-Hungary • Germany • Italy

Did You Know?

  • The Triple Alliance was meant to serve as a threat to any smaller nations that might challenge one of the alliance's members.
  • The agreement between the countries of the alliance asserted that it was "essentially defensive and conservative."

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Key People

Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Francesco Crispi
Italian statesman
Agostino Depretis
premier of Italy
Umberto I, detail of a portrait by Antonio Piccinni
Umberto I
king of Italy
Pasquale Stanislao Mancini
Italian statesman
Gusztav Siegmund, Graf Kálnoky von Köröspatak
Austro-Hungarian statesman