Early 20th-century understandings between France, Russia, and Great Britain
Not to be confused with Triple Alliance.
Triple Entente
1907–1917
The Triple Entente (green) and the Triple Alliance (brown) in 1914: United Kingdom France Russia
Status
Informal military alliance
Establishment
1907
History
• Established
1907
• Dissolved
1917
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Franco-Russian alliance
Entente Cordiale
Anglo-Russian entente of 1907
Allies of World War I
The Triple Entente (from French entente[ɑ̃tɑ̃t] meaning "friendship, understanding, agreement") describes the informal understanding between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was built upon the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, the Entente Cordiale of 1904 between France and Britain, and the Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907. It formed a powerful counterweight to the Triple Alliance of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy. The Triple Entente, unlike the Triple Alliance or the Franco-Russian Alliance itself, was not an alliance of mutual defence.
The Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907 was a key part of building a coalition as France took the lead in creating alliances with Japan, Russia, and (informally) with Britain. Japan wanted to raise a loan in Paris, so France made the loan contingent on a Russo-Japanese agreement and a Japanese guarantee for France's strategically vulnerable possessions in Indochina. Britain encouraged the Russo-Japanese rapprochement. Thus was built the Triple Entente coalition that fought World War I.[1]
At the start of World War I in 1914, all three Triple Entente members entered it as Allied Powers against the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.[2] On September 4, 1914, the Triple Entente issued a declaration undertaking not to conclude a separate peace and only to demand terms of peace agreed among the three parties.[3] Historians continue to debate the importance of the alliance system as one of the causes of World War I.
^Ewen W. Edwards, "The Far Eastern Agreements of 1907." Journal of Modern History 26.4 (1954): 340–55. online
^Robert Gildea, Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800–1914 (3rd ed. 2003) ch 15
^Official Supplement (1915). Chapter 7: Declaration of the Triple Entente (Report). American Society of International law. p. 303. JSTOR 2212043.
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