Zusammenfassung der Ressource
CAUSES OF THE I WORLD WAR
- ON THE 28 JUNE 1914 , HEIR TO AUSTRIAN THRONE, FRANZ FERDINAND, IS KILLED
IN SARAJEVO BY A SERBIAN NATIONALIST. THE TENSION HAD BEEN BUILDING IN
EUROPE SINCE 1900
- MILITARISM
- THERE WAS A NAVAL RIVALTY BETWEEN GERMANY AND UK
- GERMANY COMPETED WITH BRITAIN TO BUILD BATTLESHIPS AND TO
CONTROL TRADE ROUTES
- ALSO GERMANY COMPETED WITH RUSIA
AND FRANCE TO EXPAND THEIR ARMIES
- EACH COUNTRY TRIED TO HAVE A BETTER MILITARY MACHINE THAN THEIR
ENEMY
- INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCES
- FRANCE AND BRITAIN WERE AFRAID OF THE
KAISER´S AMBITION TO BUILT A LARGE GERMAN
EMPIRE
- TRIPLE ALIANCE
- GERMANY
- AUSTRIA
- HUNGARY
- ITALY
- TRIPLE ENTENE
- BRITAIN
- FRANCE
- RUSSIA
- IMPERIALISM
- ALL THE GREAT POWERS WERE COMPETING FOR COLONIES .
BUT GERMAN ATTEMPTS TO GAIN COLONIES FRIGTENED AND
ANNOYED FRANCE AND BRITAIN
- NATIONALISM
- FRANCES LOST ALSACE AND LORRAINE IN 1871
- AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA WERE
COMPETING TO HAVE MORE
INFLUENCE IN TTHE BALKANS
- SLAVS , AIDED BY RUSIA AND SERBIA , WANTED TO BE FRE OF AUSTRIAN RULE
- SERBIA WANTED TO CREATE A COUNTRY WITH
BOSNIANS , CROATIANS AND SLOVENIANS AND HAD
THE SUPPORT OF RUSSIA
- THE 2 BALKAN WARS
- SERBIA , BULGARIA , GREECE AND
MONTENEGRO DEFEATED THE OTTOMAN
EMPIRE
- BULGARIA AND SERBIA FOUGHT FOR DOMINANCE IN THE REGION ,
AND SERBIA EMERGED AS THE VICTORY
- WHEN FRANZ FERDINAND IS ASSESINATED ,
AUSTRIA DECLARED WAR TO SERBIA , SO RUSSIA
DECLARED WAR TO AUSTRIA