WW1 causes

       





  
                                                       WW1 causes
                                                     By:Sean Marbell
       
        
                   



Militarism
Alliance system
imperialism
nationalism


Militarism: At the time Britain had the most powerful navy and Germany was trying to grow theirs
so french and Britain were trying to mobilize there fleets and Germany was readying theirs. Germany felt that a war was the only way to become a super power so that people woould see that they are strong. On top of this the Central powers held secret military talks getting ready for war and they
where ready for if one came.

As a result all European powers were ready for war by 1914.

Alliance system: The alliances started out as Germany, Austria-Hungary, And Italy they where known as the Triple Alliance, United Kingdom, France and Russia became the Triple Entente.
When war began the Triple Alliance became the Central powers consisting of Germany , Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Bulgaria, while the Triple Entente became the Allied powers and consisted of UK, France. Russia, Serbia, US,

Imperialism: Hungary Austria tried to take Serbia Hungary being the bigger country had the upper hand and this went from the two countries to slowly one by one adding in the rest of the world.

Nationalism: Great Britain had great pride in there fleets but when Germany started undermining that pride with a fleet of there own it led to conflict build up between the two countries