Causes Of World War I And The French Revolution

Over the course of history, wars and other conflicts around the world have begun that have affected many countries and groups of people. Two conflicts that have affected countries are World War I and The French Revolution. World War I, also known as “The Great War” was a result of the Great Powers of Europe not trusting each other and forming alliances against each other. Alliances were designed to protect each other and promote peace but it had the opposite effect, and only caused more tension between the nations. This was a major cause of World War I, as well as some other, more immediate causes. The French Revolution was a result of inequalities among classes, failing French economy, and an unpopular monarch. Both conflicts, though different,

Another cause of World War I was the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, while he was visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. After this build up of tension, countries began to convert to a total war strategy. Restrictions were put on workers freedom of movement and people were encouraged to ration their food and their supplies through the use of propaganda. The Auxiliary Service Law was also put in place, which affected men and women in Germany, because it mandated that all males between the ages of 17 and 60 were to work only at jobs that were essential to the war effort, as well as women who began working in war factories, mines and steel mills. The war continued for four long years of rationing and working hard to

This revolution was inspired by Enlightenment thinkers whose idea of equality and freedom had spread throughout France. England was under the rule of an Absolute Monarchy, and the goal of the revolution was to overthrow the absolute monarchy and the system of aristocracy privileges. One cause of the French Revolution was the inequalities among classes. The classes were split up into three groups, The First Estate, who were the Clergy, the Second Estate, who was the Nobility, and the Third Estate, which was everyone else. The people of the Third Estate were angered because they were paid low wages, yet expected to pay many of the taxes, even though the upper states who usually were very wealthy, paid almost no taxes. Another cause of the French revolution was that the French economy was failing. Food supplies were very low, and people were starving, and they couldn’t buy much food because the high taxes that the lower classes were forced to pay, kept the profits low. The national debt was also increasing rapidly because of the expenses of the American revolution and the spending of the monarchy. The last cause of the French Revolution was the unpopular monarch. The people of France were discontent with King Louis XVI. They thought of him as weak and they believed he did not do a good job governing. His wife, Marie Antoinette was also disliked in France,