The Role Of Imperialism In World War I

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I have learned a lot about American history including from 1914 to 1932.From 1914 to 1918 I have learned that America joined WWI in 1917 because of the Zimmerman telegram. But WW1 bigane because of the killing Franz Ferdinand who was the was the hair of the Australian people .He was killed by the Serbian guy which name was Gavrilo Princip . After that Austria declared war against Serbia so Russia came and helped Serbia but when Germany knows about that ,they attacked Russia and France and the WW1 begun. The main reason that America joined world war one was the unrestricted attacks German submarines the American ships.Also we have learned about people that didn’t want to go the war.This people were known as Pacifists. Lots of people didn’t want to go the war because some of them thought that it’s too far but some people wanted because of the gaining France independance.As well , I have learned about Militarism which is the policy of building up armed forces in aggresive preparednes for war. …show more content…
They sought to gain critical resources and establish an international presence through imperialism, which also allowed them to gain political

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