The Underlying Causes Of World War 1 World War 1‚ a.k.a ¨The Great War was one of the most tragic wars in history. The generation that went through World War 1 was nicknamed ¨The lost Generation¨ because of 4 years gone to waste on the war. But what was the underlying cause of World War 1? There are many beliefs on reasons World War 1 happened and these are 3 primary causes. Militarism‚ Imperialism‚ and alliances are debatable reasons for the cause of The Great War but what sticks out the most out
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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
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Do you know how World War 1 started? Well if not‚ in this essay I will be telling you the many reasons how and why the United States got involved in the war. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his pregnant wife were assassinated on June 28‚ 1914. After the assassination there were a series of events that happened and triggered World War 1 to occur.The next reason why it started was because on May 7‚ 1915 a German submarine launched a torpedo at the Lusitanian‚ which was a boat that had 1‚959
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The beginning of World War 1 was something not expected. It went the total opposite way from what was planned. The assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand is what sparked the war. The war started in 1914. The war itself began in Balkin‚ Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia‚ Then Germany declared war on Russia‚ Then went on to France. France and Great Britain declared war on Austria Hungary within six days. The war had many causes‚ one of the first reasons for the war was a trend toward developing
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July Crisis World War 1 was inevitable because all countries were stubborn. The countries weren’t willing to negotiate with each other and they never wanted to put their guards down. All these countries wanted to be the best and strongest of them all. To begin‚ the country that was responsible for war was Serbia. For example‚ Serbia rejected Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum‚ specifically the demand of letting Austria investigate the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The was inevitable because
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World War One was the global war. This event took place in Europe and it lasted for four years and three month. The reasons behind the causes of war includes variety numbers of reasons and event that took place. These problems mainly focuses on the economic factors and the political factors. Some problems in the economic factors includes the alliance system. The problem with the alliance system was the central power and the triple alliance and the relation between these two different alliances
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World War 1 was a huge global battle of the Allied Powers and Central Powers in Europe. It started on the 28th of July 1914 and ended on the 11th of November 1918 and within the 4 years of war‚ over 16 million people died. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (the Austro-Hungary heir) and his wife on the 28th of June 1914 started a chain of events which were to be disastrous. A month later on the 28th on July 1914‚ Austria-Hungary waged war and invaded Serbia. Russia then came to support
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World War One brought a variety of different turning points‚ both good and bad‚ which made Canada the nation it is today. One of these turning points includes the discrimination against the Ukrainians. At the time‚ Canada strongly encouraged immigrants from Eastern Europe to settle in Canada’s West. The British and Americans were most welcome however‚ under the new ‘open door’ policy‚ we were willing to accept Northern and Eastern Europeans; especially Ukrainians. Ukrainians were next desirable because
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World War One started for two main reasons: the alliances of Europe and many countries‚ and what really set off the war‚ the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Franz Ferdinand was the crowned prince of Austria-Hungary who was sent to Serbia to keep peace between the countries. This happened on June 28th‚ 1914‚ and was murdered by a member of a group called the Black Hand‚ Gauvrillo Princip. Austria-Hungary wants revenge and will push what they call the July Ultimatum. This was a set of laws
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Canadian History Since World War 1: Paragraph response The first Moroccan crisis is one of the 3 crises‚ which contributed to the outbreak of world war 1. This happened because France wanted to expand into morocco but Germany did not want this to happen and hoped that if France intruded Morocco it would destroy the English-French relationship between each other But then when the Germans intruded Morocco which just made the French and the Germans get closer together instead
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