Jack Heyburn 2/2/12 The First World War is generally accepted to be the first conflict to bring warfare to a global scale. The four years of worldwide hostilities were brought on by a synergism of both domestic and international issues. Although both factors played a significant role in the outbreak of war‚ the international issues contributed more to the eruption of conflict than did the domestic. The international landscape leading up to World War I was marked by imperialism‚ high economic
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World War 1 Causes WW1 left roughly 10 million soldiers dead‚ 21 million soldiers wounded and 8 million soldiers missing. It was a conflict between the Allied Powers‚ and the Central Powers. The three main causes of the war were the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ widespread militarism and economic imperialism. I will explain why these where the three reasons in the following paragraphs. The first cause of WW1 took place on June 28‚ 1914. Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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The beginning of World War II. The contestants in WWII were divided into two groups‚ the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers. The following countries were in the Allied Powers: Soviet Union‚United States‚Britain‚ China‚ France‚ Poland‚ Belgium‚ and the Netherlands. The Axis Powers consisted of the following: Germany‚ Japan‚and Italy. The Allied Powers during WWII were those that opposed the Axis Powers. At the beginning of war‚ Britain and the Commonwealth Nations stood almost alone‚ but the United
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The Causes of the First World War Chardai C Guthrie Seaford Senior High School The Causes of the First World War The First World War was a war between the great European empires and was fought from 1914 until 1918. The alliances were the Triple Alliance (Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ and Italy) and the Triple Entene (Britain‚ Russia‚ and France). The war was caused by a chain of events that built up more tension and rivalry throughout the years. There were many causes as to why the war built up
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Causes of WW1 Every country played a specific and prominent role in that lead to the war. Everything seemed to be peaceful in Europe but the spread of nationalism and it impacted in the Balkans the most. Several forces were properly prepared for putting Europe into this “Great War”. Other countries were increasing their 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
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World War 1 was an occurrence after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian nationalist in 1914. This wasn’t the main cause of the war‚ it was only the last straw that broke the camel’s back. The main causes of the war are deeper than on the surface. They include political‚ territorial and economic conflicts. There has been a lot of tension between the powers in Europe since the shift of the balance of power. The unification of Italy and most especially Germany also
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experienced when they were defeated in World War I‚ Germany was only further degraded by the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was forced to take full responsibility for the devastating war and had to pay immense reparations for it. In response‚ the entire country took a turn for the worst‚ with their economy in shambles‚ significant territorial losses‚ and their military a mere fraction of its original size. Germans felt they had been mistreated and ignored by the rest of the world‚ as well as by their new government
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World war one is one of the most important events in world history. It took place in Europe in 1914-1918. The whole world participated this war. So everyone had some responsibility. There are more than one reasons for the outbreak of this war. Mainly‚ it was the expansion form of nationalism & the alliances system. Other issues played a major part too‚ such as imperialism‚ the industrial revolution‚ naval race and domestic factors. One of the main long term causes as I said before is Nationalism
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The First World War broke out in 1914. This originally involved Great Britain‚ France‚ Germany‚ Austria-Hungary and Russia. There were many causes as to why the war started. One of the long term causes was the tensions between the countries of Europe‚ for example the conflicts between Britain and Germany and Russia and Austria-Hungary. However there was one short term cause which invoked all the existing tensions to break out in war‚ the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. There were
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Causes: • Britain and Germany were competing to have the most powerful navy in the world. This caused tension in Europe. • The Scramble for Africa (when European countries had tried to get as many colonies as they could) had led to many small conflicts around the world. This meant that some of the major European powers were not very friendly towards each other. • The French were very distrustful of the Germans as a result of the war in 1870-1871 that the Germans had won. • The alliance systems
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