Causes of World War I 2
World War I is probably one of the biggest war that contained so much "chain reaction". One feels threatened, they ally with their friends, and another nation feels threatened, so they ally with their friends. The feeling of threat leads into invasions then leads into their allies helping and invading and pretty soon, more allies come from both sides. Sooner or later, a vast amount of area, in this case a whole continent, is on a war. Silly as it may sound, this was World War I. We only hope that the "feelings of threat" was the cause of war. Some would argue that the assassination of a leader in Europe caused the war to happen. However, war like this was started even before they called it a World War I. In a 1915 issue of the Clock Magazine, it states, "It is thought that this war that is been ongoing for over a year, began with the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand. However, many other reasons led to this war, some occurring as far back the late 1800's. Nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and the system of alliances were four main factors that pressed the great powers towards this explosive war. (Clock Magazine 1915 Aug. 17)" Difficult as it may sound, (and it is) this is my argument. Yes Francis Ferdi
Nationalism: a philosophy that is purely focused on patriotism, loyalty to one's nation and seeing its nation as the superior nation. Such philosophy remained popular around this time. In fact, it's popularity started in late 1800's. Most countries in Europe Imperialism: a philosophy stating that, to create or reform a country into a powerful country, it must take over all means of political, economical and military status of another country through aggression. This philosophy's cause of conflict is somewhat similar to the conflict caused by militarism. Already by what the philosophy states, you can tell that it can cause conflicts and war. "A new vigorous and ambitious great power grew to strength in the heart or Europe after 1870, and its challenge to the established order was one of the primary causes of World War I." (World War I - Baldwin, Hanson Pg. 6) Europe at this time was very focused on imperialism. The entire struggle for power, wealth and superiority can be pinpointed by this philosophy. Countries in Europe had colonies almost in every continent during this time. (Mostly Africa and Southeast Asia). The numbers of colonies grew massively in a very short amount of time. Sooner or later, conflicts and competitions started rising when colonies were fighting over the areas they colonized over. Some fought because another colony invaded them, some fought to take over a colony and some fought just because their countries are on conflict due to militarism and other issues. In example, France and Germany started to have conflicts of their colonies in Morocco because Germany started to kick out all the French colonies out of their own homes. Oddly enough, Germany did that to hog the raw materials needed for their childish militaristic production. were nationalistic about their country and wanted their country to have strict culture and language system. Some countries even tended to take aggresional means of nationalism by wanting to get rid of inferior and small countries and convert them to their own culture. Such ideas threatened countries that were small and less powerful than most countries. This leads to the small countries making diplomatic statistics with other countries to be safe. However in example of a nationalistic cause in the war, Austria-Hungary was starting to be concerned when the Slavs in northern part of their empire wanted to jo
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