Do you know the causes of the great word? They are nationalism, imperialism, militarism, Balkan crisis, alliances, and armed forces. There were six different causes to the great war. I will give you details about these six different causes to the great war. I will start with Nationalism and why leaders did this. The first causes that we are going to talk about is nationalism. Nationalism is intense nation loyalty, especially strong in new world powers. What this means is people wanted war to get land. The people that wanted to have more land had a lot of power on their side so they weren’t scared to go fight. The different countries in this war had great desire do gain more land quicker than …show more content…
Imperialism is the power of one country directly or indirectly controlling economical life of other nations. This means that if that soldiers got control over the other country. After that they control the people who lived in the countries. People who lived in those countries were miserable. They got controlled all the time because the other soldiers had more power that their soldiers. The third thing I am going to talk about is militarism. Militarism is support for war and military power. People who wanted war would help out the military. They would send them stuff to go in to war with. When war was about to start different countries would elect people over the age of 18 to be in the military. Some countries would even get people in the military under the age of 18. This Is an example of militarism when people that were 18 wanted to help out the country and go and fight and try to win the world war. The fourth thing is the Balkan Crisis. The Balkan crisis is the rivalries among nationalist groups on the Balkan Peninsula. This is like when you and a rival lives near each other and you have fights/wars. Like the people on the Balkan Peninsula, they lived near each other and they were rivals. They had a war during the Balkan Crisis. It was during the Great War. They both had