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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
I can save you even more money (in 1961 I did School 'O' level history 1885-1933)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-...liance#Effects
Nevertheless, the nature of the Anglo-Japanese alliance meant that France was unable to come to Russia's aid in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 as this would have meant going to war with Britain.
The alliance's provisions for mutual defence prompted Japan to enter the First World War on the British side. Japan attacked the German base at Tsingtao in 1914 and forced the Germans to surrender (see Siege of Tsingtao). Japanese officers aboard British warships were casualties at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.[5] In 1917, Japanese warships were sent to the Mediterranean and assisted in the protection of allied shipping near Malta from U-boat attacks. A memorial at the Kalkara Naval Cemetery in Malta is dedicated to the 72 Japanese sailors who died in the conflict.[6] The Treaty also made possible the Japanese seizure of German possessions in the Pacific north of the equator during the First World War, a huge boon to Japan's imperial interests.
Players of Diplomacy will be aware that Austria-Hungary had battleships as of course had Imperial Germany.
Thus In WW1 Britain was at war with /two/ naval powers so Japan was obliged to help. |
I think of
Wikipedia as being like the Cliff Notes/Monarch Notes/Spark Notes/
et al. for the subject. Personally, my interest in the subject is not great enough, nor do I have the time, to read the book (however, the book is
short--I don't remember the exact number of pages, but it was between 100 and 200). The "Cliff Notes" will end up having to suffice for me; however, I'll definitely read all of the
Wikipedia entry. It sounds like there was such a tangled mess that it will take more than one reading (for me) to get a good grasp of what went on, though.
You mentioned that "in 1961 I did School 'O' level history 1885-1933." The School 'O' level" must be something peculiar to the education of English children or children maybe of a greater swath of Great Britain than that. It may be somewhere in the U.S., too, but I am not aware of it.