How Did Britain Cause Ww1

There were a number of reasons that all combined to cause the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. However, some causes had more of a significant impact than others on the outbreak of the Great War than others.
The least significant cause of World War I was the arms race and economic rivalry between Germany and Britain. Prior to the war, Britain had the most valuable trade in the world because we were trading goods from all over the colonies. Germany was second best at the same time, being only £1 million behind Britain in annual trade. The Germans followed Britain and began making Dreadnought ships quickly and it appeared that they were readying themselves for war. In addition, Germany had a much higher steel production which was a threat to Britain as it gave Germany the potential to manufacture weapons which could be used to take the colonies for imperialism – another major cause of World War I.
Imperialism also played a huge part in the lead up to World War I. Tensions between countries grew as
Austria-Hungary was an unstable empire made of 11 different countries and many Serbians living inside it wanted to leave and join Serbia. Serbia doubled in size during the First and Second Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and on 28th June 1914, the Black Hand Gang led by Gavrilo Princip attempted to kill the Austria-Hungarian heir. Despite it not going quite according to plan, the Archduke was still killed and a month later, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Because Russia was allied with Serbia, they also joined the war, leading to the rest of the Triple Entente (Great Britain and France) also joining the fight in addition to Belgium. Without these alliances being in place, this would only have been a small war between two countries instead of becoming a world