“Britain and France have long been involved with each other – for 1000 years at least. Passionately, creatively, disastrously, victoriously.” – Sir Christopher Mallaby (Anglo-French Relations, 7). Britain and France had been long-term enemies, but eventually became unlikely friends with the Entente Cordiale. Singed on April 8, 1904, the Entente Cordiale, formally titled, the 'Declaration between the United Kingdom and France Respecting Egypt and Morocco, Together with the Secret Articles Signed at the Same Time.’ was a series of agreements between Britain and France, marking the start of the alliance against Germany and Austria-Hungary in the First World War (1914-1918net). French for “warm understanding,” the Entente Cordiale settled more immediate disputes between England and France in Egypt, Morocco, and elsewhere in Africa and established a diplomatic understanding between the two countries (Branch Collective). This made the two nations stand together and against their common enemy, Germany. In the nineteenth century, Britain was concentrating on building its overseas empire and not being involved in European politics, better known as their ‘splendid isolation’. They had regarded France as one of their most dangerous rivals but by the early 1900s, The German Kaiser, Kaiser Wilhelm II, had said that he too, wanted Germany to have an empire and a strong navy, which Britain took as a threat to their own empire and navy. This led to the Anglo-German naval rivalry. Britain’s navy was the most powerful in the world, and when the Kaiser announced his intention to build a strong navy, Britain felt threatened. The Germans felt that the British were over-reacting and that they needed their navy to protect their growing trade, but the British were not convinced. Instead, in 1906 they launched the HMS Dreadnought. This led to Germany building some of their own, which resulted in both countries spending millions on new ships (Modern World History). France’s r