Monday, January 11, 2010

Causes of WWI


The main causes of WWI are Nationalism, Militarism, and Imperialism.  The nations were racing each other in basically everything, every nation thought that they were better than the others. This nationalism created conflicts between nations in Europe. The nations also raced between who gets the most land for their territory. Conflicts were created over colonies in Africa and Asia (imperialism). Also militarism was another cause. The Europe nations were all building up their military to be ready for war. Everything in Europe was very tense and one thing was needed to start the war. The actual spark that set the fire of war was the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, which started the chain reaction of alliances attacking each other. Soon the whole Europe was at war.

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