I agree with your statement about one of an important factors of WWI being imperialism, however, this occurred after mobilization. I believe that once the alliance system united, only then was it important to those rivalries to retrieve the most power and raw materials as well as many other gains. As far as surrealism, Freud did indeed have a huge impact on the creation. Freud was given the credit by Andre Brenton, the first surrealist, for introducing the idea. Surrealism evolved into a big movement from history still used today because of the factors behind the
