World War I: Nationalism, Militarism, And Alliances

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Nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and alliances all caused the First World War in many steps. These also caused tension in the years preceding the war. Nationalism was when countries would put their needs before other lands’ concerns, imperialism was when countries would fight to gain control of other countries that were smaller, and militarism was when countries would use the military’s forces against countries, and alliances would force countries pick this country against the other countries. A nationalism example would be the issue of the Balkan lands in the years before the Great War due to many countries wanting those lands. Turkey and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were interested in these lands and in 1908 Austria-Hungary annexed the