Causes of World War 1

causes of World War One.

World War I occurred between July 1914 and November 11,

By the end of the war, over 17 million people

would be killed, including over 100,000 American troops.

It started after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the

heir to the throne of Austria.

Hungary people think that the assassination of the Archduke was

the main cause of World War I, but I think

the real causes for the war included alliances, imperialism, nationalism

and militarism.

These were long term and short term causes that eventually

led to the war, but the trigger was the assassination

of the archduke.

Although the assassination was the trigger, it isn't necessarily the

main cause of the war.

As Germany had already made plans on how to wage

a two front war against France and Russia.

I think that the assassination of franz Ferdinand was merely

an excuse for Germany to attack France and Russia.

Yeah, okay, nationalism, nationalism played a big role in World

War One and it was definitely one of the main

causes of the war.

Nationalism was a long term quote caused as countries like

Germany and France were rivals long before the war.

And they had always been competing with each other when

France, Britain and Russia created the Triple and Hunt.

This meant that Germany looked weaker as it had no

allies and France had a strong alliance which made France

look more powerful.

This led to Germany, Austria Hungary and Italy forming the

Triple Alliance.

The alliance led to an even bigger rivalry which was

eventually became word World War One.

After the assassination of transferred in.

In the assassination was also because of nationalism.

Oppressed Slavic groups in the Austro Hungary Hungarian Empire wanted

to form independent nation states.

Thus, nationalist movements broke up across the Slavic territories.

Among the most militant nationalists were the Serbs, A militant

nationalist Serbian group, The Black Hand assassinated the Archduke when

he was on Serbian soil in protest of their countries,

continued participation in the hostel.

Very Austro Hungarian empire.

If France and Germany hadn't had such an intense rivalry,

the alliance's wouldn't have been formed and the countries taken

land to build larger empires just to make themselves look

bigger. Yeah, yeah.

Imperialism, Yeah.

One of the most significant causes of World War One

was imperialism, which is where a system where powerful nation

of worlds and exploits one or more colonies.

There are two main crisis is that occurred in Morocco

in 1905 and 1911.

In 1905, Kaiser visited Morocco in North Africa, where Germany

was building up its own empire.

An international conference was held in 1906.

At the conference Kaiser was humiliated.

This made him fill with rage because he wanted to

be seen as major power in africa.

Instead he was treated as if he had no right

and speaking at the conference that was made global news

In 1911, France tried to take over Morocco again, Britain

feared the Kaiser wanted to set up naval base in

Agadir. Another conference was held and the British and French

stood up.

Young's Germany once again France to control of Morocco and

Germany was given land in Central africa as an act

of compensation.

These events led to militarism as Kaiser was humiliated after

this and he felt that he should build up his

army, navy and weapons so he could wage a war

against Britain and France.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, militarism.

Yeah. Another important cause of the war was militarism.

Militarism could have caused the war due to the naval

and arms race.

The main event of militarism causing world War One was

the naval rivalry which was made after 19 Britain had

the most powerful navy in the world.

Will hm announced his attention to build a bigger german

navy than Britain, Britain felt very threatened by this.

Germany's navy was much smaller than Britain's navy but the

british army was put all over its colonies so they

can be protected.

Germany didn't have a big empire like Britain but most

people agreed at the time they were the best trained

and most powerful.

Kaiser felt he needed a bigger navy than Britain to

protect its country.

While Britain and Germany built up their navies, the major

powers on mainland europe were also building up their armies.

The problem for Germany was that if war broke out

they would have to find both Russia and France at

the same time.

The Germans then came up with a Schleiff and plan.

This is why militarism was one of the main causes

of the war.

Oh, oh yeah, alliances, oh, Alliances were one of the

biggest causes of the war.

The sixth most powerful European countries were divided into two

different alliances, the Triple Alliance and the Triple Anton.

The Triple Alliance consisted of Germany, Austria, Hungary and Italy

which was formed in 1882.

The triple content including Britain France and Russia which was

formed in 1907.

These alliances were formed because of nationalism, imperialism and militarism.

Each country felt threatened by each other and form these

alliances to make themselves look more powerful.

Mhm Yeah, yeah.

Mhm. This life in plan, The Schleiff in plan was

a battle plan first proposed in 19 oh five by

Alfred Graf, Watch, life in the chief of the German

general staff.

This was designed to allow Germany to wage a successful

two front war.

The plan was heavily modified by Schleiff and successor helmet

juanma. Okay, prior to end, during its implementation in World

War One more, his changes, which included a reduction in

the size of the attacking army, were blamed for Germany's

failure to win a quick victory.

In this planning, as Germany was right in between France

and Russia, they decided that Britain wasn't as important as

France and Russia and it wasn't a big threat.

Schleifer counted on two things.

The German victory in the West would be quick.

He estimated this to take about six weeks and that

Russian mobilization would be slow so that a german defensive

force would suffice to hold back Russia considered to be

a Cleveland colossus until France was beaten After a swift

victory in the West, the full force of the german

army would be directed eastwards, Russia would be beaten in

turn. This was the recipe for victory, a certain way

out of Germany's encirclement.

The three main reasons the Schleiff and plan failed was

because of transportation, communication and militarism.

The transportation for the Germany soldiers was very bad, as

they had to stay in terrible conditions and they didn't

get proper food and this meant that they would be

able to fight.

Well. The second reason was communication at the time, there

was no direct way of communicating as they had to

write letters and they couldn't call on phones or anything.

These letters could take weeks to arrive and by the

time Germany got any letters updating them about what was

going on, it would be unimportant.

The final reason is militarism, Germany didn't have enough manpower,

so, waging a war on two fronts and winning was

quite unlikely.

Oh yeah, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, to the

assassination of Archduke franz Ferdinand was a planned murder by

a group of young bosnians who were part of a

group called Black Hand.

Upon learning of Ferdinand's upcoming visit, the young bosnians, a

secret revolutionary society of peasants, students began plotting to assassinate

him. In May 7th, the men traveled to Serbia capital

Belgrade where they received six handheld bombs, four semi automatic

pistols and cyanide suicide capsules from members of the Black

Hand, a terrorist group with close ties to the Serbian

army. After practicing with their pistols in a belgrade park,

the three men journeyed back to Bosnia where they received

help from Black Hand associates to smuggle their weapons across

the border.

On june 28th, the archduke and his wife Sophie boarded

a train to Sarajevo.

Ghazni ins had found out along the Apple quay, a

main avenue in Sarajevo was running parallel to my hockey

river. When the motorcade passed by, it's rude having been

published in advance, Kapetanovic asked which car carried the archdeacon,

He then hurled his bomb at the car, only to

watch it bounce off the roof and rolled underneath the

wrong vehicle.

The subsequent explosion wounded two army officers and several by

standards, but left Ferdinand and Sophie unharmed.

Taber Novick jumped into the mostly driver bed and made

a half hearted attempt to kill himself before being apprehended.

I am a servant hero, he shouted as the police

dragged him away rather than immediately flee for a nun,

decided to continue on to the planned event at City

Hall. Upon finishing that up, he insisted on visiting the

wounded officers in the hospital in order to dissuade any

other bomb throwers.

The motorcade zipped down the app liquid at high speeds

by mistake.

However, the first three cars turned onto a side street

where Princip happened to be standing as the cars attempted

to reverse back onto the apple quay, Princess whipped out

a pistol and fired two shots at the archduke from

point blank range, piercing him in the neck and also

striking Sophie's abdomen Burton and murmured.

Sophie don't die, stay alive for our Children.

Within minutes though, both had passed away and princip a

slender that 19 year old Serbian Army reached later admitted

to killing Ferdman but said he had not meant to

hit Sophie.

Mm. Yeah, conclusion.

In conclusion, I don't think that the assassination of franz

Ferdinand was the biggest cause of World War One.

I think that the four main causes of the war

where militarism alliances, nationalism and imperialism, the assassination of franz

Ferdinand was merely a trigger of the war, but it

is still an important event leading up to the war.

Mhm. Thank you

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