Causes of World War I
-Militarism: country has a strong army and navy. and sometimes relying on that to settle disputes
-Imperialism: countries have boundary disputes. competition for land, power, and money. wanted land controlled by colonies in africa and middle east.
-Nationalism: having great devotion or loyalty for your country.
-Economic competition
-System of Allies
*Powers
-Great Britain, Germany, France, United States
-Russia, Japan, Italy
-Portugal, Belgium, Austria-Hungary, Spain, Turkey
-Economic Competition was competing for money, power and other things around the world..too much competition can cause issues and lead to war.
-System of Alliances is where countries are like a friend to another or other countries.
central alliances in 1914 were turkey, germany, bulgaria and austria hungary.
power alliance was russia france and great britain italy servia US. russia came out of the war in 1917 bcuz of bullshivik. hahahahhhahaha!! the US took russias part in the war...germany lost bcuz they were fighting a two sided war. the two sided war enede when russia dropped out but they were replaced by the US and were fresh and ready to fight against germany
assassination of archduke franz ferdinand- the black hand was an organization that wanted to get all Servians in one country. they wanted to assassinate ferdinand. they had failed attempts (threw gernade at his car but bounced off) him and his wife were later shot when the organization came across them as they were giving up..the assassin was gavrilo princip-only 19 big cause of WWI
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