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. Some would argue that the assassination of a leader

in Europe caused the war to happen, that person being Archduke Franz Ferdinand. However, war like

this was started even before they called it World War I. In a 1915 issue of the Clock Magazine, it

states, "It is thought that this war that has 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) Yes

Francis Ferdinand was assassinated and sparked the beginning of the war, but that was not the main

cause. The four major roles that played in the cause of World War I were Nationalism, Milit

small countries making diplomatic statistics with other countries to be safe. However in example of a

vigorous and ambitious great power grew to strength in the heart or Europe after 1870, and its

Supposedly, at that time, Britain had the best all-around Navy in Europe. What Kaiser

Imperialism and Alliance Systems played as the major causes of World War I. Nationalism made

use most of German's raw material to start a huge, mass production of weaponry, ships, and any other

another colony invaded them, some fought to take over a colony and some fought just because their

colonies grew massively in a very short amount of time. Sooner or later, conflicts and competitions

take aggresional means of nationalism by wanting to get rid of inferior and small countries and convert

became jealous of Great Britain's Navy and their increased naval production. "Germany's challenge to

Britain and their Navy and hopefully scare them into submission.

power, wealth and superiority can be pinpointed by this concept. Countries in Europe had colonies

Imperialism started conflicts on who controls what and who gets to control which country. Finally, the

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