During the 19th and 20th century an abundance of change was occurring
             within the world in terms of the bonding and binding of alliance systems.
             France would quickly intertwine itself with different countries in order to
             form alliances to offer a form of security, strength, and wealth for the
             countries in the alliance as well as themselves. At the same time, there
             was a race for the empire, which would gain fuel through expansionism of
             other empires. Additionally, major imperialist activities would occur.
             Through fear and concern for security, strength, and wealth colonial
             holdings would increase. The combination of these elements and the binding
             of the countries through alliances would eventually help lead to the
             individual countries involvement in World War I (WWI) and the reasoning
             France had several different alliances with other countries. France was a
             great ally and had the economic, political, and military strengths that
             proved useful in the battle against Germany and Austria-Hungary. France
             even had a secret alliance with Italy that led to Italy aiding France in
             the war against Germany and Austria-Hungary. There were other alliances
             like the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1892 this agreement was formed with
             Russia. In the Franco-Russian agreement, if Germany or its ally Italy were
             to attack France, Russia would come to the aid and defend France. The same
             thing applies to Russia if the scenario occurred for them.
             The next agreement was the Entente Cordiale of 1904, which helped to end
             conflict between Great Britain and France. This agreement in no way made
             Great Britain or France an alliance with each other, or force Great Britain
             to commit support to Russia. This was more of an agreement than real formal
             alliance; however, the Triple Entente of 1907 changed the original alliance
             of the Entente Cordiale of 1904 and added Russia. Now they were the Triple
             Entente and stood in opposi...