Nationalism and Militarism Why is nationalism and militarism leading causes to WWI? Nationalism is when a large group of people are under one flag and have patriotism. Militarism is the belief of desire that a government or people to have a strong military to promote national intent. Both go hand in hand with each other in an specific order; imperialism, assassination and alliances were only secrumstanses used to attack each other. Nationalism, one nation under a government or group of people that have the same religion, speak the same language, look moderately the same and have the same belief. “Strong nationalist elements led to the re-unification of Italy in 1861 and Germany in 1871.” When Napoleon was exiled ,the European countries
