Ultimately, the larger battles that came along with alliances worked in hand to help rapidly increase the spread of militarism. Countries became influenced by each other, soon seeking out greater weapons such as machine guns and tanks. Nations that didn’t already have a great amount of weapons wanted to grow their stock, and nations that did have a great amount wanted to put them to use. In 1890, Germany annexed a total expenditure of twenty million euros. In 1914, this number grew by a wide margin, totaling out to nearly 120 million euros (DBQ, 317). Generally the same statistics can be shown for nations such as Russia, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Great Britain. As the war came to a start, the nations included in alliances of battling