2 Causes of World War 1

World War 1 was considered to be a very brutal and most destructive war ever in human history that begun in Europe in August 1914. It was the very first war that included nations in it. According to a historian Sydney Bradshaw Fay; who says “it was a complex assortment of causes, notably imperialism, militarism, and alliances that pushed Europe into a war”. Where historians like Fritz Fischer and Niall Ferguson blamed one country particularly. According to a historian Eric Hobsbawm; who dint find the causes of war in any one specific country or person, but according to him it was in the system of industrial capitalism that had dominated the economies of Western Europe. World War 1 itself had many causes but I think it started due to the Allied powers when Gavrilo Princip who was a Serb student killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife as he was going to be given the Austria-Hungarian throne, where Princip belonged to a group called the Black Hand (formed on 6th September 1901 by the army of Serbia). The main aim of the Black Hand group was to free Serbia from Austria-Hungary. Infact, the emperor of Austria was relieved when Franz Ferdinand was killed because he anyways disliked him and he also said “God will not be mocked. A higher power had put back the order I couldn’t maintain.” This event hardly made any impression to the Austrian people “indeed it took the government full 3 weeks for to react” as said in an article by Daven Hiskey.
The Alliance System
Europe was divided into two: Triple Alliance that is also known as Central Powers and Triple Entente that is also known as Allied Powers, where triple alliance was made up of Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary, Triple Entente consisted of France, Britain and Russia. The central powers where blamed responsible for causing the World War 1.
Militarism
Militarism was amongst one of the indirect causes that led to war. Due to the widespread of militarism it had become the second most important cause of World