History of the North Sea intense diplomatic crisis. The crisis was defused when Russia was defeated by the Japanese and agreed to pay compensation to the fishermen. During the First World War, Great Britain's Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow and Germany's Kaiserliche Marine faced each other across the North Sea. Due to its numerical advantage in dreadnoughts, the Grand Fleet obtained Naval superiority and was able to establish a sea blockade of Germany's coast. The goal of the blockade was to deny Germany access to maritime trade including war materials and to guarantee the undisturbed ferrying of British troops. Because of the strong defensive
Romania's foreign policy in the years preceding the outbreak of the World War I Romania's foreign policy in the years preceding the outbreak of the World War I At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the international system was marked by the rivalry between the Great Powers for the control of the Extra-European world. In Europe, Germany had become the main power and its behavior on the continent produced an extraordinary distance and reconstitution of the alliances in relation to the precursory decades Romania was caught in these games of power. On the one hand, it was an object of the neighbouring empires’ rivalry, which had plans