Why Did World War 1 Start

World War I had many factors as to why it started. These consisted of colonization, militarisation, assassination, and alliances. Colonization came to be a negative factor due to all the countries in Europe fighting for land and wealth of goods. Militarisation was another one of the factors due to the rapid development of the dreadnoughts by Britain and Germany. Assassination, from the death of Archduke Ferdinand. Alliances cause tension between countries. After Ferdinand was assassinated, allies of Austria-Hungary put themselves into the war due to treaties. Due to the allied countries of Austria-Hungary, the Allies joined the war against them. Also, Germany rapidly built up its military with new technology and more manpower. During World War I, there were economic issues. America needs money for their weapons to help
The Zimmerman telegram, when it was on its way to Mexico, was stopped by America and had to put a stop to it because they shortly realized that Germany wanted to become allies with Mexico. This was bad for America because Mexico would help bring the war to America. Submarine warfare against American ships pushed President Wilson into declaring war against Germany because Germany promised America that they wouldn’t. Making that to be one of the biggest causes for America going into war. The sinking of the RMS Lusitania had contained Americans on it and made America mad because of all the Americans who had died on the ship. America didn’t ratify the Treaty of Versailles because it made the League of Nations. The Senate did not approve of the U.S. joining the League of Nations. I believe that it would’ve been smart for us to have joined at this time because WWII would’ve been less likely to happen with American support behind the League of Nations. Wilson’s fourteen points were to describe how he wanted to create peace for America to put an end to WWI, according to the website The World