The main causes:
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated by a Serbian terrorist group called the Black Hand. This was the immediate cause of World War 1.
• Militarism, the belief in building up a strong-armed force to prepare your country for war.
• Imperialism, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia all scrambles for colonies in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Each nation wanted new trade markets and the raw materials of these new regions.
• Nationalism, pride or devotion to one's country. Nationalism encouraged unity, and would put nation against nation.
• Alliances, A web of alliances developed in Europe between 1870 and 1914, effectively creating two camps bound by commitments to maintain sovereignty or intervene militarily
The major battles of world war I were:
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Unfortunately, the Allies made the mistake of believing that the Ottomans could be easily defeated. As resolute on 25 April 1915, Allied troops landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in Ottoman Turkey in two places on the order of General Sir Ian Hamilton, the British 29th Division at Cape Helles and the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps north of Gaba Tepe. Both areas became overtaken by Ottoman troops and neither the British nor the Anzacs could advance. The fighting quickly turned to Trench warfare with the number of casualties hastily rising combined them rampant sickness, food quickly became inedible, and the summer heat conditions for the allies rapidly deteriorated. In August a new attack was launched north of Anzac Cove. This attack, like the one before it quickly failed. In December, it was decided to evacuate – first Anzac and Suvla, and then Helles in January