The first World War, better known as World War I or the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his expecting wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo, Bosnia during an open top parade. Despite the trauma that the First World War resonated throughout the globe, it led to a number of developments and innovations in society such as the rights of women, the end of class system, various form of arts influenced by the war such as poetry, music and paintings. New inventions such as the wristwatch, zips, stainless steel and pilot communication. There are also the inventions of new weapons and arms of which, after having been modernized, have led to the revolutionary technology and weapons we now have in the twenty-first century, such as the tank, machine guns and the use of poisonous gas. …show more content…
There were long term issues such as militarism, the alliances, imperialism and nationalism. Otherwise known as M.A.I.N. All of these underlying reasons led to bigger cause such as the arms race, imperial rivalry in general, the alliance system and the crises in Morocco and the Balkans.
Short term issues include the chain of events; Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum to Serbia and its declaration of war, Russia’s immediate mobilisation, the Schlieffen Plan from 1897, and England’s declaration of war. Otherwise known as A.R.S.E. These chain of events were started following Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination and Serbia’s rejection of the sixth out of the ten conditions of Austria-Hungary’s