![]() ![]() Both alliances ended because of continued strong conflicts of interest between Austria-Hungary and Russia in the Balkans. It was renewed in 1884 but lapsed in 1887. A second one was established June 18, 1881, and lasted for three years. The first League of the Three Emperors was in effect from 1873 to 1878. The Balkans posed a more serious issue, and Bismarck's solution was to give Austria predominance in the western areas, and Russia in the eastern areas. It aimed at neutralizing the rivalry between Germany’s two neighbors by an agreement over their respective spheres of influence in the Balkans and at isolating Germany’s enemy, France. Together they would control Eastern Europe, making sure that restive ethnic groups such as the Poles were kept in control. In 1873 he formed the League of the Three Emperors, an alliance of the Kaisers of Germany and Austria-Hungary and the Tsar of Russia. The solution was to ally with two of the three. If two of them were allied, then the third would ally with Germany only if Germany conceded excessive demands. Bismarck feared that a hostile combination of Austria, France, and Russia would crush Germany. His goal was a peaceful Europe, based on the balance of power. ![]() Chancellor Otto von Bismarck took full charge of German foreign policy from 1870 to his dismissal in 1890. The League of the Three Emperors or Union of the Three Emperors ( German: Dreikaiserbund) was an alliance between the German, Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, from 1873 to 1887. Treaty between German, Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires from 1873 to 1880 ![]()
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