The forty-three years between the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the outbreak of World War I (1871–1914) constituted an unprecedented period of peace in Europe. This resulted in part from a common interest among the European powers in seizing those areas of the world still outside Western control: although the expansion of Western influence in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific periodically caused tension, pursuit of empires overseas remained sufficiently distant to preclude a major European war over imperialistic competition.
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