Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Causes of WW1
- 4 main causes
- NATIONALISM
- Belief that your country is
better than others... This
made countries aggressive
- IMPERIALISM
- The desire to conquer
colonies - this brought the
powers not conflict
- MILITARISM
- The attempt to build up a
strong army gave nations
the means to make war
- ALLIANCES
- Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy formed the triple
alliance... This alarmed Britain, France and Russia who
formed the triple entente
- Assassination of archduke Ferdinand
- Franz Ferdinand was inspecting the army in Sarajevo with his wife Sophie.
- Austrian emperor Franz Josef forbade him to be seen with her because she was a. Commoner
- 28th June 1914 was also Serbia's National Day. Ferdinand's visit was an insult to the Serbs
- The conspirators got their guns and bombs from the Black Hand. A Serbs terrorist organisation
- Franz Ferdinand was shot on Franz Josef street
- The schlieffen plan
- Based on the theory that Germany would be
at war with France and Russia
- It assumed France was weak and would be easier to beat than Russia
- The plan began to go wrong when Russia mobilised its army and France did not
- Things got worse when Britain declared war on Germany
- German historian Fritz Fischer argued that the German leaders had a 'will
to war', that they wanted to expand German power, and they wanted the
situation in Europe to deteriorate into war.