Triple Alliance: Quick Facts


Facts

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 in military uniform and cap, with a mustache, facing slightly to the side in a black-and-white portrait taken around 1880.
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
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Francesco Crispi
Italian statesman
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Agostino Depretis
premier of Italy
Umberto I, detail of a portrait by Antonio Piccinni
Umberto I
king of Italy
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Pasquale Stanislao Mancini
Italian statesman