Understanding Nationalism in WW1

Nationalism is from the people. Patriotism is the act of one individual for their country. When given these two points, we can clearly believe that one is part of the other. Faith within the nationalism can cause things like hatred within the nations, like the quote from the source; “Nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.” When nationalism is one’s identity, and a part of one’s nation, the way an individual thinks about other countries, becomes the way they treat the other countries. Even though nationalism is an aspiration common to the whole of a nation, patriotism is the devoted love, support, and defence of one’s country/nation. The way one individual acts can either be patriotic, or nationalistic. Even stronger than nationalism, is the ability to prevail. This ability is often associated with patriotism. One should embrace the perspective on nationalism reflected in “Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first” as it applies to the First World War in 1914.

Devotion from the person to the ambition of their nation is a cause of how the war began. Nationalism within a country so strong, that it causes the collapse of the peace, or the fire to the gunpowder. When royalty is greeted in public, it should be with open arms, warm spirits, and hope of a new beginning. Though, with the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, of Austria, this statement becomes a spurious claim. The trusting gesture of Franz to the people he would have soon ruled, soon became the death of him. The Congress of Berlin in 1878 Austria-Hungary had been given the right to administer Bosnia and Herzegovina on the western border of Serbia. Thousands of Slavs lived in that area, but in 1908, Austria-Hungary annexed these ideas outright, which infuriated the Serbs, who hoped to absorb all the Slavs into their nation. Serbia may have been small and insignificant to Austria-Hungary; however, the one small