Agadir Crisis

The Agadir Crisis, also called the Second Moroccan Crisis, or the Panthersprung, was the international tension sparked by the deployment of a substantial force of French troops in the interior of Morocco. France thus broke both with the Act of Algeciras (that ended the first Moroccan crisis) and the Franco-German Accord of 1909. Germany reacted by sending the gunboat Panther to the Moroccan port of Agadir on July 1, 1911.

Scramble for Africa
  • Tunisia (1881)
  • Sudan (1881)
  • Egypt (1882)
  • Wassoulou (1883)
  • Eritrea (1887)
  • Dahomey (1890)
  • Mashonaland (1890)
  • Dahomey (1892)
  • Matabeleland (1893)
  • Wassoulou (1894)
  • Ashanti (1895)
  • Ethiopia (1895)
  • Matabeleland (1896)
  • Zanzibar (1896)
  • Benin (1897)
  • Wassoulou (1898)
  • Chad (1898)
  • Fashoda (1898)
  • South Africa (1899)
  • Namibia (1904)
  • Morocco (1905)
  • South Africa (1906)
  • Ouaddai (1909)
  • Morocco (1911)
  • Morocco (1911)
  • Tripolitania (1911)
  • South Africa (1914)

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