Nationalism was on reason why World War I started. Nationalism is a strong feeling of loyalty to ones own country (Childcraft dictionary). Nationalism was strong in Europe but it was especially strong in France and Germany. Germany was proud of their economic and military strength wile France was one of Europe's leading powers (wh p.694). While nationalism was strong in those two countries they were having a bitter rivalry. The French were still mad at their defeat in the Franco-Prussian war in 1871 because their leader Napoleon III was overthrown had they had to accept harsh peace with Germany. The peace treaty said that they (France) had to surrender their provinces of Alsace and Lorraine (see fig. 2.0) and pay a huge sum of money to Germany (wh p.617).

At the same time in Austria-Hungary they feared nationalism bec

So to me the war started because Austria-Hungary wanted revenge for the assassination of their archduke and that led to Russia helping Serbia, which made Germany, stand by its ally because they were scared of facing France alone in a later war which led to France supporting Russia so they would not have to face Germany alone, which led to England joining in the allies side so they can wipe out Germanys navy. And like Sidney Bradshaw said "all European countries in greater or lesser degree were responsible for the outbreak of World War I (document 6)."

Meanwhile Russia had a powerful form of nationalism called Pan-Slavism, which stated that all Slavic people shared a common nationality (ce). So Russia as the largest Slavic country stood ready to defend Serbia (wh p.695).

The last reason why I think all of Europe was responsible for World War I was because of the alliance system. In the war there was two major alliances one belonged to the central powers, which consisted of Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary and the allies which consisted of England, France, and Russia (document 2)

One of the biggest rivalries of this group was between England and Germany. Before 1900 England had the best economy in Europe. But the British

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