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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Imperial Germany becomes this by the second half of the series. France is still sore about its humiliation in the Franco-Prussian War, while Wilhelm II's overly ambitious ''Weltpolitik'' ends up antagonising the British. Even its relationship with traditional allies Russia and Austria are lukewarm at best. Wilhelm himself lampshades Germany's unpopularity during the Bosnian Crisis, snarking that everyone will find some way to blame Germany (and him) for the entire debacle even though it's the Austrians who were responsible.
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* TheQuisling: Lenin seeks to avoid being seen as this when the Germans offer to smuggle him and his fellow Bolsheviks back into Russia and end the war, demanding that the Germans extend their offer to other exiled socialists. This would make it difficult for his opponents to accuse the Bolsheviks of being German collaborators since every other socialist on the train back to Petrograd, by that logic, would be "collaborators".
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* {{Blackmail}}: Germany gets Russia to recognize Austria's annexation of Bosnia by threatening to expose the secret documents that Izvolsky drew up with Aehrenthal. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Izvolsky had it coming.]]
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* {{Blackmail}}: Germany gets Russia to recognize Austria's annexation of Bosnia by threatening to expose the secret documents that Izvolsky drew up with Aehrenthal. [[KickTheSonOfABitch Izvolsky had it coming.]]
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Both Ivolvsky and Aerenthal, the Russian and Austrian foreign ministers, fail to foresee the political repercussions of annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina into the Austrian Empire. Ivolvsky did not expect Austria to proceed with the annexation earlier than what had been arranged between them -- which would leave him no room to negotiate for access to the Dardanelles, which was a pointless venture in and of itself. Nor did he understand just how important the Serbs were to Russia, who proclaimed itself as a guarantor of Serbian independence. Aerenthal, for his part, underestimated the international backlash Austria received for the annexation and had to turn to Germany to help cover his government's ass, which runs counterproductive to Austria's goal to remain politically independent from Germany.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Both Ivolvsky Izvolvsky and Aerenthal, the Russian and Austrian foreign ministers, fail to foresee the political repercussions of annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina into the Austrian Empire. Ivolvsky Izvolvsky did not expect Austria to proceed with the annexation earlier than what had been arranged between them -- which would leave him no room to negotiate for access to the Dardanelles, which was a pointless venture in and of itself. Nor did he understand just how important the Serbs were to Russia, who proclaimed itself as a guarantor of Serbian independence. Aerenthal, for his part, underestimated the international backlash Austria received for the annexation and had to turn to Germany to help cover his government's ass, which runs counterproductive to Austria's goal to remain politically independent from Germany.
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** In the same episode, Count Ivolvsky, who had cut a deal with Austria's foreign minister to recognise the annexation in exchange for Austrian support in the opening of the Dardanelles to Russia, has this reaction when he hears that Austria went ahead with the annexation without first consulting him, leaving him in no position to bargain for the Dardanelles as he had hoped.
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** In the same episode, Count Ivolvsky, Izvolvsky, who had cut a deal with Austria's foreign minister to recognise the annexation in exchange for Austrian support in the opening of the Dardanelles to Russia, has this reaction when he hears that Austria went ahead with the annexation without first consulting him, leaving him in no position to bargain for the Dardanelles as he had hoped.
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* BadassBoast: When his minister questions Tsar Alexander III about the possibility of war with Austria, the Tsar's response is to take a wooden lance from one of his guards and break it clean in half with ''his bare hands'', telling the minister that that's what he'll do with the Austrians. In real life, he instead did this to the metal cutlery, bending them all completely out of shape.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Both Ivolvsky and Aerenthal, the Russian and Austrian foreign ministers, fail to foresee the political repercussions of annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina into the Austrian Empire. Ivolvsky did not expect Austria to proceed with the annexation earlier than what had been arranged between them -- which would leave him no room to negotiate for access to the Dardanelles, which was a pointless venture in and of itself. Nor did he understand just how important the Serbs were to Russia, who proclaimed itself as a guarantor of Serbian independence. Aerenthal, for his part, underestimated the international backlash Austria received for the annexation and had to turn to Germany to help cover his government's ass, which runs counterproductive to Austria's goal to remain politically independent from Germany.
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* OhCrap:
** In Episode 9, King Edward and Georges Clemenceau have this reaction when a representative from ''The Times'' informs them during lunch of rumours that Austria plans to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, which would spark an international crisis.
** In the same episode, Count Ivolvsky, who had cut a deal with Austria's foreign minister to recognise the annexation in exchange for Austrian support in the opening of the Dardanelles to Russia, has this reaction when he hears that Austria went ahead with the annexation without first consulting him, leaving him in no position to bargain for the Dardanelles as he had hoped.
** In Episode 9, King Edward and Georges Clemenceau have this reaction when a representative from ''The Times'' informs them during lunch of rumours that Austria plans to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, which would spark an international crisis.
** In the same episode, Count Ivolvsky, who had cut a deal with Austria's foreign minister to recognise the annexation in exchange for Austrian support in the opening of the Dardanelles to Russia, has this reaction when he hears that Austria went ahead with the annexation without first consulting him, leaving him in no position to bargain for the Dardanelles as he had hoped.
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* AllForNothing: Aleksandr Izvolsky's scheme to gain Austria's support for Russian access to the Dardanelles by giving them a blank cheque to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina ultimately ends up humiliating Russia with nothing to show for it. To rub salt in the wound, both the Prime Minister and the Tsar point out that access to the Dardanelles is meaningless now that they lost most of their fleet in the Russo-Japanese War.
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* AllForNothing: Aleksandr Izvolsky's scheme to gain Austria's support for Russian access to the Dardanelles by giving them a blank cheque to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina ultimately ends up humiliating Russia with nothing to show for it. To rub salt in the wound, both the Prime Minister and the Tsar point out that access to the Dardanelles is meaningless now that they lost most of their fleet in the Russo-Japanese War. And even if there were a conference, the British would only approve if access to the Dardanelles is opened to ''all'' nations, rendering the whole thing moot.
