The Causes of World War I
* There were four major events that factored into the start of world war I, Alliances,Militarism,Imperialism and Nationalism.
*Europe was divided into two defined camps.
Alliances
* "The Triple Alliance", Which was made up of Germany,Austria,Hungary and Italy
* "Triple Entente", which had the two biggest countries Russia,France and the UK.
*Alliances worked in a weird way, because if any one was attacked everyone would basically start attack one an other.
*Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated, June 28th, 1914 by Gavrilo Princip.
*The assassination started all the alliances thus forcing all the countries to fight each other.
*Gavrilo Princip-Bosnian serb apart of a group known as , "the black hand".
*The serbians wanted to let the Austrian-Hungarian government know that they were tired of being ruled by them.
*Austria then sent an ultimatum to Serbia.
*Serbia complied but still wanted to be a separate country.
*Austria declared war on Serbia, and the alliance system thus kicked in.
Nationalism
*Nationalism that each european country possessed was tested
*Each country was trying to prove their dominance and power over each other
*Made people excited for the war
Militarism
*Russia started mobilizing their army in case Serbia was attacked.
*Austria took this as a threat and started immobilizing their own.
*Everyone one else started shortly after this.
*Germans plan in case they were attacked from both sides, "the Schleiffen plan".
* "The Schleiffen plan" - FIrst the germans would pour all their troops to attack France and then once they took France would switch over to Russia.
*Were supposed to take France in 6 weeks before Russia could really immobilize their army, but this plan failed cause Russia worked faster then they thought.
*Britain and Belguim also had an old alliance that the Germans had underestimated.
Imperialism
*The time before the war started Africa and Asia we're places of high priority to have under your influence.
*The European countries involved in the war all wanted to have possession because of all the raw materials.
*The demand and desire for these countries caused a lot of tension.
*Europe was divided into two defined camps.
Alliances
* "The Triple Alliance", Which was made up of Germany,Austria,Hungary and Italy
* "Triple Entente", which had the two biggest countries Russia,France and the UK.
*Alliances worked in a weird way, because if any one was attacked everyone would basically start attack one an other.
*Hungarian archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated, June 28th, 1914 by Gavrilo Princip.
*The assassination started all the alliances thus forcing all the countries to fight each other.
*Gavrilo Princip-Bosnian serb apart of a group known as , "the black hand".
*The serbians wanted to let the Austrian-Hungarian government know that they were tired of being ruled by them.
*Austria then sent an ultimatum to Serbia.
*Serbia complied but still wanted to be a separate country.
*Austria declared war on Serbia, and the alliance system thus kicked in.
Nationalism
*Nationalism that each european country possessed was tested
*Each country was trying to prove their dominance and power over each other
*Made people excited for the war
Militarism
*Russia started mobilizing their army in case Serbia was attacked.
*Austria took this as a threat and started immobilizing their own.
*Everyone one else started shortly after this.
*Germans plan in case they were attacked from both sides, "the Schleiffen plan".
* "The Schleiffen plan" - FIrst the germans would pour all their troops to attack France and then once they took France would switch over to Russia.
*Were supposed to take France in 6 weeks before Russia could really immobilize their army, but this plan failed cause Russia worked faster then they thought.
*Britain and Belguim also had an old alliance that the Germans had underestimated.
Imperialism
*The time before the war started Africa and Asia we're places of high priority to have under your influence.
*The European countries involved in the war all wanted to have possession because of all the raw materials.
*The demand and desire for these countries caused a lot of tension.