what are the immediate causes for the first world war
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The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, 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.
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Long term causes—
- After the german states formed Germany, in 1870, the new nation challenged the imperialistic race for lands in Africa, in the Pacific and other places of the world. They went head-on against England and France, Europe’s nations with empires throughout the world.
- They had almost a conflict with the U.S.A. at the Philippines in 1898 when Dewey fired a warning shot to a german war vessel approaching Manila Bay, at the end of the U.S. war with Spain.
- Germany interfered in Morocco, a French influenced african nation. In 1905 the Kayser visited Tanger to express his support to the sultan and obtain advantages in commerce. Also its main reason was to divide France and Great Britain in the issue of french presence in Morocco. But what happened was the opposite, suspicion of Germany’s intention bonded France and England.
- so In January 1906 the Algeciras Conference in Spain, was called to solve the crisis. The conference let France having a controlling interest on moroccan affairs . Germany could not achieve any edge or control over this land—it was stated that Morocco was a free nation —and went through a public shamea.
- There was a second Moroccan Crisis when in 1911 Germany sent a war vessel to Agadir and France had armies deployed. It was big news of this gunboat on Morocco, challenging France influence, again. To solve the issue, Germany was given land on Africa.
- Germany went on with the imperialistic race , and the Kayser visited Jerusalem, then a possession of the Otoman empire, and visited Turkey. They wanted to have a share in the oil fields of the Near East, because they needed fuel for the army and navy. Oil fields that most of them were controlled by England and France.
- Then came the Balkans wars .
- Thus, some of the events previous of the Great War.
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