Militarism In World War 1

Militarism is a key component to World War I as the countries began to compete for having the best military. Prince Bernhard Von Bulow said to the Reichstag “In the coming century the German nation will either be the hammer or the anvil.” In the 1900s, the Germans could be either the destroyer or the destroyed. This caused people to want to build the military so their country would not be crushed. The need to survive caused an arms race, the german spending having a steep increase in spending. In a chart published by {LONDON SOMETHING SOMETHING} on military spending, Germany spent 2.75 times the amount of money in 1914 than in 1900. In 1914, they spent 110 million versus 40 million in 1900. The accepted the fact that eventually Germany would