starting in 1879. It was thought the alliances would promote peace. Each country would be protected by others in case of war‚ making it foolish for one country to wage war on another. No one wanted to be invaded by Russia‚ stop Italy from attacking Austria-Hungary and so on! No one trusted anyone else over there! They each wanted to make sure that they would be able to guide the military in the event of a war - plans where nothing would be left to chance. It helped start the war‚ as when you got into
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all the new technology that was used‚ such as submarines‚ tanks‚ machine guns. It was estimated that in that four year time period there were 10 million deaths. When the Serbians assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife‚ Austria-Hungary viewed this as a threat. Germany decided to help out Austria-Hungary‚ and Russia was allies with Serbia‚ which meant Russia‚ had to help defend Serbia‚ and it became a much bigger deal which included the acronym M-A-I-N. Imperialism Imperialism is when
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On July 28 1914‚ one of the greatest war started.At the time one month before the war started Franz Ferdinand of Austro Hungarian throne‚ and his wife Sophia‚ had been killed. By Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip which later cause to go to war but‚ the two important reasons that War World 1 started are Alliances and Militarism. One of the important reasons that world 1 started is because of Alliances. An alliance is a formal political‚ military or economic agreement between two or more nations. In
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form a type of ‘friendship’ where if one country is in trouble‚ the other/others would step in and help. The two main alliances were the Triple Entente‚ which consisted of France‚ Britain and Russia‚ and the Triple Alliance of Germany‚ Italy and Austria-Hungary. The Triple Entente‚ formed in 1907‚ remained strong as ever even when Germany tried to sever their bonds in an argument with France over Morocco. Additionally‚ Russia and Germany signed unofficial secret ‘reassurance treaties’ though it
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over 25 countries. It was started by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo ‚ Austria-Hungary by a Serbian man named Gavrilo Princip whose was one of the seven members of Mlada Bosnia (Young Bosnia)‚a terrorist group from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia . Due to prior “arguments” with Serbia ‚ this gave Austria-Hungary the excuse to go to war. July 28‚ 1914‚ Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia ‚ as a first attack Austria-Hungary invaded Bosnia-Herzegovina in reaction to this Russia
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most obvious and widely accepted reason of the start of the First World War‚ (also known as the Great War‚ especially pre-WWII) is the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However‚ while this is still one the causes of World War I‚ it is certainly not the main one. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was merely a spark to the already hot and blazing political atmosphere created by the the tensions between many of Europe’s great powers. Germany and Britain
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There were numerous aspects that resulted in the decision of having the First World War. However‚ the four main causes were nationalism‚ militarism‚ imperialism and the most powerful nations around the world dividing into two alliances. I strongly believe that the cause that had the most significant effect on the outbreak of the World War was the development of alliances across the world. Nationalism is a feeling of deep loyalty to one’s people and homeland which was very common among people living
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expenditures on armaments‚ and forming alliance systems. The immediate cause of the first world all started in Austria-Hungary and their negligence to let Serbia get back some of their territories. The main causes of World War 1 were Militarism‚ alliances‚ imperialism‚ and Nationalism. Archduke Franz Ferdinand had been the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne. It was wonderful news all over Austria but to the Serbs‚ it had
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was the assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28th June 1914. The Black Hand‚ a nationalist organization in Serbia‚ supported the assassination. It was a secret military society with the mission of uniting all the Slavic States. By assassinating the Archduke (the presumed heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne)‚ and a rejection of the ultimatum proposed by Austria-Hungary‚ they ultimately led to the First World War. A month after the assassination Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
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Hollweg‚ whose primary aim was to subvert diplomatic intervention in order to begin the war under the most favourable conditions possible. Following the Archduke’s assassination‚ Berlin deliberately used the crisis in relations between its satellite Austria-Hungary and Russia’s satellite Serbia as an excuse for a general war that would establish German hegemony. World War I started in 1914 because a government in Berlin wanted a
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