World War I is one experience that the world will never forget. Militarism, alliance, nationalism, and imperialism are the main topics that started the war. This all happen in the year 1914. That included the central powers, and the allies. World War began, because Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
To begin with,one of the underlying reasons why World War I started was, because of the alliances. The two main alliances were the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. The Triple Alliance included: Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy while Russia, France, and Great Britain were on the triple entente. The countries were blaming each other on why World War I started. Russia blamed Germany, Austria blamed Serbia, Serbia blamed Austria, France blamed Germany, Belgium blamed Germany, England blamed Germany, and Italy did not pick a side. Until later the Triple Alliance were surrounded by the Triple Entente. So that added more power to the Triple Entente. In the middle of it, Italy switched to the Triple Entente which hurt the triple alliance very much, because now it was four against two. Alliance has took a big role in World War I, because the two opposing countries declared war then the allies of those countries would jump in to help, but it makes the situation more than what it is.
In addition to alliance, militarism took a big role in starting World War I. The countries spent a lot of money on armies and navies so that their military could be the most powerful and the strongest. Great Britain spent the most money on its navy, because they are a Island surrounded by water, so they need protection from the water. Russia by having the most population of people lost to Germany, because Russia’s military was bad, Russia didn’t knew what they were doing. As for Germany, were a well trained military. The Triple Entente is becoming more powerful because, the Triple Entente are gaining more land. Von Bülow said that Germany a hammer or a anvil, because Germany is going to pound the other countries. Bülow believed in the survival of the fittest, that the country with the stronger army will win and the country with the weakest army will lose. Militarism played a big role in World War I, because everyone wanted to be stronger and bigger so they saw it as a competition.
In the final analysis,nationalism was a big part of War World I. Because of nationalism, Serbia’s terrorists had killed Franz Ferdinand, who was the heir of Austria’s ruler. They were in Sarajevo, but the Serbian people did this because Serbia didn’t want an Austrian ruler and because of this World War I started. This is why nationalism was one of the main causes of World War I.
In all the alliances had won the war. Germany had to pay a big for the damages that they did. Germany was very surprised when the nations wanted Germany to sign a treaty that they were the one to start the war. But just because the War World I is over, doesn’t mean there might not be another war in the future.