Question

Describe the term MAIN which was the cause of world war I ​

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Answer:

✒ 5 main causes of World Wars are :-

1. Mutual Defense Alliances

•Countries throughout the world have always made mutual defense agreements with their neighbors, treaties that could pull them into battle.

•These treaties meant that if one country was attacked, the allied countries were bound to defend them.

•Before World War 1 began, the following alliances existed -Russia and Serbia, Germany and Austria-Hungary and France and Russia.

2. Imperialism

•Imperialism is when a country increases their power and wealth by bringing additional territories under their control.

Usually without outright colonizing or resettling them.

•Before World War I, several European countries had made competing imperialistic claims in Africa and parts of Asia, making them points of contention.

3. Militarism

•By 1914, Germany had nearly 100 warships and two million trained soldiers.

•Great Britain and Germany both greatly increased their navies in this time period.

•Further, in Germany and Russia particularly, the military establishment began to have a greater influence on public policy.

This increase in militarism helped push the countries involved into war.

4. Nationalism

•Much of the origin of the war was based on the desire of the Slavic peoples in Bosnia and Herzegovina to no longer be part of Austria-Hungary but instead be part of Serbia.

•This specific essentially nationalistic and ethnic revolt led directly to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which was the event that tipped the scales to war.

5. Immediate Cause: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, and nationalism) was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.

In June 1914, a Serbian-nationalist terrorist group called the Black Hand sent groups to assassinate the Archduke.