AGADIR CRISIS

Agadir Crisis

Morocco continued to be a source of crisis. In April, France was forced to commit substantially more forces to take control of the city of Fez . The Germans decided to challenge the increasing French dominance in Morocco by sending a gunship to a closed port, ostensibly to protect the rights of German citizens. The intervention resulted in crisis throughout Europe . The parties concerned arrived at a resolution of sorts, when the Germans agreed to acknowledge French rights to establish a protectorate in Morocco– in return for France ceding Germany a small area in the French Congo . British backing for France during the crisis reinforced the Entente between the two countries and added to Anglo-German estrangement, deepening the divisions which would culminate in World War I.