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Causes of World War 1
- Militarism, Nationlism and Imperialism
- Certain countries felt a desire to expand
their territories. They also believed they were
the best. This led to military complications.
- Boer War
- Germany opposed Britain in South Africa and helped the Boers
- This made Britain think that Germany wanted to destroy the empire
- Dreadnought Crisis
- in response to Germany increasing their navy, the British grew their navy to rival the Germans.
- First Moroccan crisis and Agadir
- Kaiser Wilhelm promised to support Morocco against France
- The Balkan Wars
- Serbia had annexed many countries in the Balkans. Austria-Hungary was it's next target
- This led to the increasing tension in Europe
- The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Austria-Hungary had taken
over Bosnia and Herzegovina,
much to Serbia's annoyance
- The heir to the
Austrian-Hungary thrones,
Franz Ferdinand, went to
Sarajevo to inspect the army
- A group of young Serbs decided to
assassinate him. The initial attempts failed,
but Gavrillo Princip was able to shoot the
Archduke and his wife, before being
arrested
- This led to the declaration of
war, and ultimately led to Britain
being dragged into the fighting
- Aggresiveness
- Some countries such as Russia, and faced
some embarrassing defeats. They wanted to
prove themselves again, and were just
looking for a fight.
- Germany had a bad relationship with Britain and France, and
when the opportunity came, they decided to rival their enemies
- Alliances
- Serbia had an alliance with Russia, so
when Austria-Hungary declared war on
Serbia, Russia joined the war
- However,
Austria-Hungary had an
alliance with Germany,
so Germany decided to
attack Russia
- Germany decided to
launch the Schlieffen
plan, they attacked
France before attacking
Russia
- Germany ended up attacking Belgium whilst attacking France
- this led to Britain
joining the war as, they
had an alliance with
Belgium