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Most of the blame for World War One was thrown on the back of Germany, but are they really the main reason why the war escalated to where it did? WW1 was a four year long war, starting in 1914 and ending in 1918 with around 10 million people dying. It was a very widespread war with many countries involved and many people often ask why it became so big. The main reason was because the countries that started the war, Austria-Hungary and Serbia, had alliances with other countries that had alliances with other countries and so on and so forth. Some other contributing factors to the war were most likely militarism and imperialism. The Central Powers most likely felt threatened by the Allies because the Allies had a lot more land than them (Doc F). Not only did the Allies have advantage in land, they had a lot more sea routes branching around Europe (Doc E). The Germans were at least …show more content…

Serbia was friends with Russia who was friends with France and Britain. Austria-Hungary was friends with Germany who was kind of friends with Italy (Doc A). Those are a lot of main countries spread out all over Europe which will help the war become world-wide. Many countries teamed up in blaming a different country, Germany, for the war (Doc B). They all jumped in to help their friends that were pointing a finger at somebody else. The war could’ve just been a spat between Austria-Hungary and Serbia if Russia hadn’t been so eager to protect the other countries, like Serbia, they had an ethnic tie with. Although there are many possible reasons for the war, militarism, imperialism, and alliances are the main three with alliances being the most main reason. Militarism and imperialism riled up the countries, making them angry and afraid, but alliances really pushed the countries over the edge into the war. It all just piled up into one big, bad heap of hatred that spurred the countries

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What was the main cause that started WW1? For many years, this has been a question that many historians have asked themselves. Many of them believe that Germany was the country who started the war and I agree with this. I think that Germany led to the beginning of the war because of many reasons. The German General staff intentionally urged Austria-Hungary to act unreasonably after the assassination of the austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand so that Germany wouldn’t be completely surrounded by its enemies.

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War broke out in 1914 due to forces that had been building up in Europe for years. While the Allies blamed Germany for the war too harshly, its actions certainly did directly contribute to World War I, as did those of Austria Hungary. However, each country involved fostered militarism in their country, and became in entrenched in the web of alliances and race for imperial power, all causes of the environment that led to the Great War. Therefore, it could be said that all European countries were responsible, in part, for World War I, as reflected in Documents 5, 6, and 7.

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A war that was originally between two countries ended up being a war between six. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by Serbia caused a retaliation of Austria-Hungary that started the Great War. With all the alliances set up, there just needed to be some spark to set off a world war, and that spark ended up being Franz Ferdinand. The cause of the assassination was because “The

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As a result, Germany increased a war to themselves because they could use their neighbor 's war as an opportunity to spread across. Therefore, Germany caused World War 1 because they used the opportunity to increase the war in order to gain more land. In the end, all countries had some participation and thus, were a “cause” of World War 1. Germany transformed the small war into a widespread and massive war.

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Alliances had been put in place in order to balance power and prevent a world war to ever happen. Alas, the conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia was not prevented at all. The conflict was what pushed forward the war and caused countries to call for more alliances. This had gotten more and more nations involved in what started as a small conflict to a war. Countries started declaring war on eachother until it was, what some might call, a bar fight.

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Document A ‘‘European Alliances, 1914’’ shows us the different types of alliances that nations had with each other. Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy were known as the Triple Alliance. There was also the Triple Entente, an alliance between France, Great Britain and Russia. Alliances helped cause the war because nations would be against each other and they would also want to be dominant. Although there were many reasons that caused World War I, Militarism, Imperialism, and Allies were the main factors.

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There were a variety of underlying causes in World War I. They were militarism, alliances, nationalism, and a mix of imperialism. Before the war Nations started to build up their arms (DBQ: What Were the Underlying Causes of World War 1, 2010, Doc 7) making a competition for dominance, and alliances are formed making powerful armies. Nations produced propaganda infuriating the citizens and giving the pride in their nation which led to nationalism. Nationalism is a patriotic feeling for your nation, causing new literature relating to the war, for example this poem “When Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure Main; This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sand this strain;...

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Because of alliances, Russia came to aid Serbia and that led Germany to declare war on Russia. Eventually the other countries with alliances joined

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The United States had for years been improving and growing rapidly. Away from the other world powers in Europe, they were able to avoid their conflicts for a long time, but that changed. America got involved in World War One and it affected some of their advancements. U.S imperialism was able to thrive in WWI, with America using the power to expand their empire. American progressivism however, fell between the cracks and disappeared for a long while during and after the war.

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They as well started to prepare their army, and soon all of Europe was at war. If these large alliances were not formed, two countries would have been fighting their own war, instead of causing a world war. Nationalism helped create these alliances, each country thought they we’re better than each other, this created huge amounts of distrust. To better protect their interests, and to have more security, they joined each other into an alliance

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Germany was one of the causes of World War 1. Germany fought Germany for the land of Morocco, Germany gave Austria their ¨full support¨, and Germany encouraged Austria to declare war on Serbia. Germany thought that they were the best so they started to try to take land. For example, Germany went up against France for the land of Morocco, but in the end Germany backed down because both Britain and Russia were going to help France. That is when Germany and Britain almost went to war.

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First cause of this war was Nationalism as I said in the introduction above. Germany wanted to prove other countries that they were well developed, Germany had all kinds of weapons whether it’s a long range or short. Germany had the most steel production than any other countries in Europe. Their army was also great, many countries in Europe had fear against Germany’s military because they were well trained, but at the same time, Germany was also scared, because they thought the historical enemies might get a revenge on Germany. Even though, Germany had the seen as an opportunity to assert dominance, this contributed the war in a more direct way by leading to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, which triggered the escalation to conflict in

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Conflict between nations and within nations themselves is never caused by a single reason. This was especially true for World War I. In the years that led up to World War I, the major powers in Europe were Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Italy. Great Britain, France, and Russia formed the Triple Entente, while Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed the Triple Alliance. Both sides contributed to the starting of World War I, even though they blamed the opposite alliance.

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The Causes of the First World War Carmen There were quite a few causes of the first world war (WW1). The long-term causes were the militarism, alliance system, imperialism and nationalism- MAIN. The short-term cause was the fact that Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. I personally think the most significant cause to WW1 is the alliance system and here, I will justify why I think like this. I think the most significant cause of WW1 was the alliance system.

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Although Germany had a larger hand in the war escalating, Serbia should also share more, or as much, blame for the start of this war. Serbia was the root of the problem, assassinating the next heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. It is not unreasonable that Austria- Hungary took action and declared war against Serbia. Sir Richard J. Evans, a professor at the University of Cambridge, had described Serbia as a “disruptive force” in which I agree with. Serbia was the cause of the start, however, Germany made it into an even bigger problem.

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