The Four Long Term Causes Of WWI

There's four main long term causes of WWI, conveniently, M.A.I.N. The first of these four are Militarism; It's long term because a country takes time over a long period to build up its military, like Germany and France for example. Because of the invasion of Germany from the time of the Franco-Prussian War, Otto Von Bismarck deemed it a necessity of the German state to build up its military forces in response to France in efforts to keep France as weak and isolated as possible. France, in return, responded with the same tactics; building its own military to protect against the cruelty of the Germans. This race pitted the two powers against each other and created rising tensions leading up to WWI. Germany also threatened the British, which influenced