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The Agadir Crisis, Agadir Incident, or Second Moroccan Crisis was a brief crisis sparked by the deployment of a substantial force of French troops in the interior of Morocco in July 1911 and the deployment of the German gunboat SMS Panther to Agadir, a Moroccan Atlantic port. [1]
Puck Maganize caricature of the French President Armand Fallières and the German Emperor Wilhelm II aiming for the dove of peace on the platform of the Second Moroccan Crisis. The Second Moroccan Crisis (1911) was precipitated when the German gunboat Panther was sent to Agadir on July 1, 1911, ostensibly to protect German interests during the ...
The First Moroccan Crisis or the Tangier Crisis was an international crisis between March 31, 1905, and April 7, 1906, over the status of Morocco. [1] Germany wanted to challenge France 's growing control over Morocco, aggravating France and Great Britain.
Throughout the Agadir Crisis Wilson was keen to pass on the latest intelligence to Churchill. Wilson recorded four separate reports from spies of German troops massing opposite the Belgian frontier. Wilson was also responsible for Military Intelligence, then in its infancy. This included MO5 and the embryonic MI5 and MI6. It is unclear from the ...
After the Second Moroccan crisis of 1911, Wavell become convinced that a war with Germany was likely and that closer Anglo-Russian ties would be needed. [14]
Moroccan Crisis could refer to: . The First Moroccan Crisis, or the Tangier Crisis, brought about by the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Tangier in Morocco in 1905; The Second Moroccan Crisis, or the Agadir Crisis, sparked by the deployment of a German warship to the Moroccan port of Agadir in 1911
In 1872, the German Empire under Otto von Bismarck sent a diplomatic representative to Morocco, and in 1890 a German-Moroccan trade treaty was signed in Fez. [3] The Empire's attempt to gain influence in Morocco led to conflict with France and the First (1904–1906) and Second Moroccan Crisis (1911).
First Moroccan Crisis 1905–1906; Pig War 1906–1908; Anglo-Russian Convention 1907; Young Turk Revolution 1908; Bosnian Crisis 1908–1909; Racconigi Bargain 1909; Second Moroccan Crisis 1911; Italo-Turkish War 1911–1912; Balkan Wars 1912–1913; Assassination of Franz Ferdinand 1914; July Crisis 1914