Causes Of WW I

There were many causes for the first world war also known as The Great War. The first cause was Nationalism since the Austria-Hungary empire and the Balkans were made up of conflicting national groups such as Serbia. Nationalism also made the nations feel as if they were better than other nations. The next cause is Imperialism because all the European nations needed natrual resources due to the Industrial Revolution which led to them expanding into Africa and Asia. They competed for the economic expansion into Africa and Asia and fought for the land. The next cause was the alliances Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia formed the triple alliance. When one country went to war all the allies were at war also protecting their allies in combat. The next cause is Militarism which was when they build stronger and larger armies which lead to fear and hatred between the other nations. The last cause is the assasination of the Archduke of the Austria-Hungary empire by a Serbian man. This then led to Austria punishing Serbia which led to Russia declaring war and then Germany declared war. All the other allies such as Great Britain then joined the war.