How Did Militarism Lead To Ww1

Militarism helped with the idea of Nationalism which in the end helped with Imperialism. With these ideas we came up the the Alliance System which were made up of the allies and the central powers. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was what started the fight between Austria-Hungary and Siberia. The alliance system then pulled nation after nation into the conflict. It wasn’t until we found out about the Zimmerman note that the U.S. got involved. They are many reasons that the U.S. stayed out of the war. The first was that it was not our war. Most people saw it as if it were not hurting our people then we should stay out, so we did. We also had allies that we did not want to offend by joining the war. The second reason was money. With the war we received money from both side of the war. The upside to this is that we received more from our allies. Once the countries ran out of money they started taking out loans from U.S. banks. The third is political reason. Wilson’s re-election played a big part in this. He wanted “a peace without victory.” Wilson believed in Neutrality so he in no
The first was unrestricted submarine warfare. The German U-boats were ordered to sink all ships in sight friendly or not. So once the U-boats sank the Lusitania we were given another reason to join the fight. With this we created the convoy system. The second reason was, of course, money. With the other countries taking loans from the U.S. we wanted to ensure that we would get our money. The only real way to ensure this was to join the war. The third is the Zimmerman Note. This was a note sent to Mexico from the Germans that tried to convince the Mexicans to join the Germans with promises of getting there land back in the U.S. The fourth reason is because Russia drops out. This is because the Zar family is taken out of power and killed. With Russia out, the war went from a 2 front war to a 1 front