Why Is World War 1 Avoidable

War was an armed dispute among nations who could not patch up to agreements and the purpose of war was to win something in return. In war there always has to be a winner. Many people question whether World War 1 was avoidable. In my opinion World War 1 was not preventable due to the build up of militarism, alliances and nationalism. Militarism was one of the causes why war was inescapable. Militarism is belief where gaining superiority plus nation’s power was through maintaining as well as building stronger and more advanced navies. The British Navy was always 10% larger then the two next navies combined in the world, so Germany built up their own fleet for a chance to show more power. British Navy boosted their large fleet of ships to overpower the Germans; this has resulted into a competition between the most powerful nations to see who could have the strongest navy. By 1914, Britain’s had 29 dreadnoughts a heavily armed battle ship compared to Germanys 17, now this race to out do one another has them …show more content…
The purpose of making an alliance was to build peace and avoid war, if another country dared to attack a member of an alliance, other nations could come to its help with no violence. Instead alliances led to war because one serious misinterpretation would escalate quickly into war. Europe was divided into 2 defensive alliances Triple Entente which consists of United Kingdom, France and Russia, and then Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary formed the Triple Alliance. In 1914, Archduke of Austria-Este Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia were assassinated by a Serbian from Bosnia, Gravillo Princip a member of the Black Hand. The assassination resulted in all the major powers of Europe to declare war because Austria-Hungary was under attack by the Serbians, Austria- Hungary was in an alliance of the Triple Alliance and Serbia was an alliance of Russia who was an alliance of the Triple