World War I is oftentimes seen as a horrific incident within mankind’s history. In fact, this conflict, that involved many global superpowers, is often seen as a major event that compromised the lives of millions of individuals. Document a shows that the three to four years of conflict led to famine, sickness, and death that was greater than the thirty years war. Furthermore, throughout the early 20th century, the exploitation of raw materials from colonies was becoming increasingly important, however, many of these nations needed to quickly absorb territories. Document Q makes it clear that concerns over national security led to many changes throughout this era that led to World War I. While the First World War had many underlying causes,…
1. World War I had many different causes including militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and more. To begin militarism, which is the focus on building up and glorifying a country’s military, was a long-range cause of the war. In most of the Western countries, excluding the US and Britain, conscription was being used to create a powerful military. All of this building up of military’s gave people a war-like attitude.…
World War I World War I started in the summer of 1914. Most of the war took place in Europe. The war was long and lasted four years. World War I was unlike any previous wars.…
Germany is completely responsible for World War One because militarism builds armies and stockpiles weapons which leads to heightened tensions, alliance systems turn small conflicts into worldwide wars, and nationalism unifies countries but can cause adverse effects. Germany is to be completely blamed for World War One because militarism creates an arms race where nations expand their armies and accumulate weapons to feel safe while at the same time, intimidate their neighbors. Militarism is the policy of glorifying military power and is considered an arms race, where nations gather weapons and soldiers (The Causes of World War One Lecture, 11/30/15). To draft soldiers, nations used conscription which forces men to serve in the army (The Cause of WWI Lecture, 11/30/15).…
World War 1 was a massacre of human life and an important event that determined the present state of the modern world. Yes, World War 1 was inevitable. The foundation of the causes of World War 1 can be traced back to several factors that were building up international tension to the ultimate result of war. In the 1900s, the European countries were extremely competitive in extending their influence around the world. Their competitive nature was motivated by the encouragement of nationalism within countries, the entangled alliances between nations, the arms race and the battle to acquire colonies around the world contributed to the small disputes that lead to…
In World War 1, the most important cause were alliances because the alliances felt threatened or feared that the other alliance were getting countries to join them. Alliances means countries could be able to work together with their allies to have a stronger group and come to their country to give a hand if the country was attacked. Before World War 1 started, there was two different alliances. One alliance was the Triple Alliance also called the central power. The Triple Alliance were Germany, Italy and Austria Hungary.…
Main Causes of World War 1 There are a lot of things that factor in when discussing what caused World War 1. The main causes of World War 1 was; militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism. Some things that led to these factors was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. His assassination triggered the outbreak of WWI.…
Increased militarism in the arms race contributed to World War 1. There was increased military spending leading up to the war. Germany greatly increased their military and Navy ( as did Britain), allowing them the ability to declare war on several countries. Germany declared war on both Russia and France. Russia and France War Mutual defense allies.…
Over the past 100 years, various historians have released statements on who, in their opinion, was responsible for the beginning of World War 1. To fully determine who was to blame, you must look into all arguments and their reasons to gain a complete understanding. World War 1 was and is one of the most well-known incidents in history. It caused many domains to crumble and also claimed the lives of millions of people. Franz Ferdinand was the Arch Duke of Austria and was next in line to be the Austro – Hungarian King.…
the blame does not lay solely on Germany and Austria- Hungary, because there are various political, economic, military, and social events that revolve around different countries throughout Europe which influence the initiation of the Great War. Responsibility for beginning a war cannot be distributed through a bias document,…
World War I, also know as 'The Great War ' was one of the bloodiest times in the worlds history. This is not only becuase it was battle between so many world powers but also becuase of the military style at the time. Many died in battle as a result of faulty strategies and even more died as a result of ignorance to innocence. Many civilians died in the destruction of cities and the imperilistic ideas of the time. This like most other wars were fought because of greed and pride, and the U.S. even tried to stay out of it to protect its interests.…
World War 1 was a very brutal & grossing war, A war that many expected to be short. In fact, it lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918. Within these 4 long and terrible years, millions of soldiers & civilians lives were lost. Some of the English, French, German & Russian soldiers were made up of young high school graduates. These young soldiers died fighting one another along the Western & Eastern Fronts.…
In observing the underlying cause of World War One, there is no right or wrong opinion because they all had a significant effect on the reason behind the war. Countries that involved themselves in militarism and imperialism were racing to become the top country in Europe. Fears that war will be declared on their country while they have little power of militarism and imperialism resulted in allies between the countries. Allies were the underlying cause because if there were no treaties, it would not be a world war but instead. a war between two or three…
During World War Two my great grandparents were alive. There were two sides of the war Axis and the Allies. The United States was on the Allied side and they won. One of the reasons for the war was the genocide of the Jews. The war exhausted resources leaving shortages in the United States and many other countries involved in the war.…
Although one may argue that Germany played was not to blame for causing World War I because tensions between European nations made war inevitable, to a great extent Germany should be blamed for the war because Germany was responsible for initiating tangled alliance systems in Europe, German militarism started the European arms race by creating a large army during peacetime, and Germany was responsible for several nations, including Great Britain and the United States, entering the war. Although some may argue that Germany was not to blame for World War I because preexisting tensions between European powers made war unavoidable, Germany is responsible for World War I due to furthering these tensions by the being the first European nation…