Dbq 3 Causes Of World War 1

The four main causes of World War I were militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism. Militarism was a popular idea at the time and can be defined as the belief that war would make one’s country stronger. Alliances were abundant before and especially during World War I and brought a multitude of countries into the war. Imperialism is the goal of expanding a nation's territory, which would have been a rational aim of provoking warfare. Nationalism is an ideology of allegiance and loyalty to one’s nation and believing that it is better or better than others. There were already many countries in conflict with each other before the start of the war, but because of the increasing number of alliances between countries and pre-existing pacts,
Within both articles of the document, the two nations agree to terms such as “faithfully stand[ing] by Austria-Hungary as is required by the obligations of his alliance,” and “should one of the High Contracting Parties be attacked by another Power,[...] not to support the aggressor against its high Ally.” Notably, in Article 1, “Should, contrary to their hope, and against the loyal desire of the two High Contracting Parties, one of the two Empires be attacked by Russia the High Contracting Parties are bound to come to the assistance one of the Empires.” “In the Triple Alliance Treaty of 20 May 1882 between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, Italy and Germany were promised military support in case of an unprovoked attack by France.” Each country wanted to be certain they would have backup during the tension before the war. Article two of the treaty clearly states, “In case Italy, without direct provocation on her part, should be attacked by France for any reason whatsoever, the two other contracting parties shall be bound to lend help and assistance with all their forces to the party attacked.” Here, Italy reaffirms and requires the other countries to come to their aid as soon as deemed