My blog assignment is over Causes of Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, and System of Alliances. There were two kinds of nationalism during this time, people wanted independence form other countries so they would often go to war to achieve this goal, and then the other kind was the dominant countries such as Germany, Great Britian, Russia ex trying to be the most dominant power. This was a probable cause for war. All these major powers in Europe were imperialistic, they all wanted more and to expand, and this caused conflict between all these major powers. Imperialism is when a countries takes over land because they want to expand. The British Empire reached over five continents. Germany wanted to expand because they didn't have as much as the other major powers of Europe. Militarism was when countries expanded their military in preparation of war. Germany and Great Britain were competing to make large navies, because they both wanted to have control of the seas. The Alliance system was started by a German Chancellor named Bismarck. Bismarck made an alliance with Austria and Russia. The Alliance broke up because Russia and Austria were both wanted a land area known as the Balkans during that time. So Germany sided with Austria because they could benefit more from them. Russia and France decided to make an alliance, this alliance was to protect each other from Germany, Austria, and Italy. Britain felt left out because almost all of the other European Powers were in an alliance except them so they made an alliance with Japan, and they ended up making one with France to. All these alliances were a major cause to WW1.
http://www.thecorner.org/hist/wwi/military.htm
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