Triple Alliance
What Triple Alliance means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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The alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary that Italy joined in 1882, though its relationship with Austria remained strained over unredeemed lands.
An agreement between miners, railwaymen, and transport workers to support each other in industrial disputes.
Topics that use Triple Alliance
- 2L Italy and Fascism, c1900–1945 – 1926 The Crisis of Liberal Italy, c1900–1915 (AQA A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 36.1: Protest, agitation and parliamentary reform in Britain, c1780–1928 - 5 Trades union militancy, 1915–27 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- AEU and TGWU
- anticlericalism
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- Council of Action
- interventionist crisis
- Media influence and public opinion
- Non Expedit
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