Causes Of World War I

On July 28, 1914 a global war started in Europe. This was the beginning of World War I and it would last for four years until its end on November 11, 1918. which started on July 28, 1914 and lasted 4 years til November 11,1918 was a global war which started in Europe. Over 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died during the course of this world war. Several European countries aligned with one another to gain more power. These alliances would fight one another for more power and would compete for more power. World War I had a lot of countries aligned with one another so that they could win the war and have a bigger power if they were teamed up, but many wanted the countries aligned with other countries to be under their control, which

With countries having high weapons and military power, this would lead to the countries using the resources they have to an advantage to not just let it all go to waste. Such as in the growth of armaments which is the growth of military weapons, many of the countries started to upgrade their military systems such as Germany. By “1914 German would be able to field 1.2 million men”(DK), with all this manpower all Germany would wish to do is use it to show that they have the most power and that no one would be able to take over their country or even hurt them. When countries have a larger more powerful Military, the chances of them going to war would be higher because they would want to show off all the military power that the country holds. Also “many countries by the time of 1914 have figured out that the war is going to come.”(DM) “The observation was made that the navy would not be ready even”(DM), as more countries started to notice that the was was coming they started to check up on their military systems to see if they can with last their competitors and possibly take them over. What many countries didn't realize at the time was that there would be a war so it was important for them to grow onto their military which messed them up in the long run. But the countries with the higher military power were putting

“A country’s survival as great as a power depended on the extent of territorial possessions...”(DQ). Countries take over more land in order for them to be able to survive. The amount land of that the countries take over would lead to them having a higher power. The reason to this is because when countries have more land they are able to take the resources from those lands and use them to their advantage. Once people see that the county is powerful because of the land that they have taken over then they might become a target to go at war with another country. For instance “either France will become a great African power or in a century or two she will be no more than a secondary European power.”(DQ). France took over Africa and it is their land but it's either that they stay ruler of Africa through land or someone fights them in war to try to take away their power, and if they lose that war then they will lose a lot of their power and possibly drop so low they won't be a country with little to any power at all anymore. Britain had a population of “400,000,000 colonies and an area of 33,000,000 sq km”(DP) with this large population and large amount of land they were the highest power during the time of the beginning of the war but they wouldn't stop there they would continue to go and get more land because there's never enough power countries have