Darwinism, a theory developed into practice in politics in the form of aggressive colonial conquests has greatly worsened international relations in the early twentieth century. A frantic rush to plant the flag over as many people and as much territory as possible, had serious consequences. Imperialism resulted new tensions among competing European states, and lead to the triumph of nationalism.

Nationalism was a crucial and underlying precondition of the Great War. It was in the form Serbian aspirations and the pan-German versus pan-Slavic racism of some fanatics. Nationalism also drove a spiraling arms race. Such great powers as Great Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hun

gary nearly tripled their expenditures on armaments in the period between 1870 and 1914. This led to distrust and hostility between the two most powerful nations: Germany and Great Britain. The leading nations of Europe were soon divided into two aggressive blocks to maintain the balance.

The great wars and great social revolutions often go hand in hand. We tend to forget about this connection. Nationalism, which so often turns to false national pride, a blinding passion of which we lose control, so it becomes self-terminating, with its nearsighted positions and corrupt views has been a barrier between nations throughout man history and has once again proved the world's interdependence and interconnection. Such obvious lessons that we have learned from the past soon become only a distant memory to us and we once again let history repeat itself, turning it into a re

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