Causes_of_WWI

Causes of WWI Causes of World War I The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand triggered World War I. However, the war had its origins in developments in the 1800's. The chief causes of World War I were the European Alliances, nationalism, imperialism, and militarism. The alliance system was one of the last factors to emerge before the war. Consequentially, the contributions of this system to the beginning of the Great War have to be considered. Although the alliance system was a main cause of the First World War, it arose because of several other factors, and did not cause the war single handedly. Nationalism was the next major long-term cause of WWI. Nationalism involved all those who shared a common language, history and culture. It was a strong feeling of support for one’s own nation. Nationalists believed that the needs of their nation were more important than the needs of other nations. Nationalists were so proud of their nation that they wanted it to be the richest and most important – and recognized as such. Such strong feelings made the countries very aggressive towards other nations and quite unforgiving if their nation had been offended. It was nationalism that encouraged Givrilo war, world, alliance, system, great, germany, countries, nationalism, imperialism, france, colonies, cause, strong, over, nation, military, each, been, wwi, two, triple, since, nations, militarism, important, formed, factors, european, created, britain, between, alliances, worried, very, time, take, russia, reason, policy, period, own, one, next, needs, nationalists, made, led, italy, involved, feeling