First World War Dbq

This paper focuses on the underlying causes of world war I instead of just immediate causes. In this article, I will answer the question what were the underlying causes of world war I. ("DBQ: What Were the Underlying ...", 2010, p. Doc 1) Some of these causes consist of militarism, nationalism, and imperialism. The immediate causes of the war were the ones that set it off but the underlying causes are the ones that had been building up over time. ("DBQ: What Were the Underlying ...", 2010, p. Doc 1)

World War I, or “The Great War”, began in 1914 and ended in 1918. The devastation witnessed in those four years alone, caused nearly 9 million people to die and millions more crippled, grief stricken, maimed, or psychologically scarred. Considered by some to be the first man-made catastrophe of the twentieth century, many scholars still debate over the main underlying causes of World War I. Many things contributed to the war, changing the lives of many people, many of them still evident today. Beginning only as a European conflict, gradually it developed into a world war.

The Thirty Years War was an incredibly important event that took place during the 17th century. It caused phenomenally high destruction rates throughout Europe, especially Germany. These battles that make up the Thirty Years Wars were extremely influential towards the European people and governments. The Thirty Years War seemed to have many political factors that fueled its beginning and continuation but the religious factors were more prominent and important to the progression and completion of the war.

The most important and main points were the alliance system in 1890, militarism, and imperialism before, during, and after the war. Although these three were the starting points of the war, alliances can be seen as the absolute leading cause of World War One.

World War I had occured between July 1914 and November 11,1918. The war had been caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. When a Serbian terrorist had drove by shooting him, and his family. Then when Austria-Hungary demanded reparations (amends), they declared war against Serbia. Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism had lead to the cause of World War I.

this day as marking the close of the struggle for German equality status and with that re-won equality the

After the deaths of 37,508,686 soldiers by the end of World War I, Europe was a mess. Countries had been dissolved and rearranged, governments had fallen and been replaced, and economies were thriving then crashing, all as a result from World War I. One of the main goals at the end of World War I was to prevent another tragedy like World War I from happening again. Clearly that did not happen, as World War II still happened, causing over 50 million deaths. The repercussions of World War I caused World War II due to radical ideology, bad economic conditions, and nationalism to the point of extremity.

Since the 1870s, most of the major countries in Europe had been preparing for war with each other. The independent German kingdoms were unified in the 1870s and had quickly become the largest power on the continent. This triggered the the Holy Alliance between Prussia, Russia, and Austria. When Germany was united in 1871, Prussia became part of the new German nation. Russia also feared Germans threat and sought to ally itself with Great Britain, France, and even Germany itself for protection against other nations.

1. Although the war began in Massachusetts in 1775, it shifted south to the middle states, with a year. After 1779 the South became the primary theatre. Why did this geographic pattern develop, what was its significance, and why did the United States eventually win?

The twentieth century was the beginning of war around the world, revolution, Great Depression, and Authoritarian and Totalitarian government. The tensions between Austria and Serbia ignited after Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated by Serbian terrorists. The mobilizations and threats of other nations escalated that led to the outbreak of World War I (pp. 780, and The Dogs Do Bark) between the Triple of Alliance with Ottoman Empire and Triple of Entente with Japan. World War I was called “Great War” because of the large volume of mobilization of resources and populations, where all men forced to fight for their country and women (p. 794) were able to work beyond their capacity as farm laborers, truck drivers, chimney sweeps, and factory workers in heavy industry3.

Before World War 1, Otto Von Bismarck had to Otto-matically unite the German states. World War 1, known as the “Great War” before 1940 was the world's first global conflict which lasted from 1914-1918. Ten million soldiers had died in the battle fields and another twenty million soldiers had been wounded by the end of the war in November of 1918. The war contented the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, United States, France, Russia, and Italy. This raises the question, “What were the underlying causes of World War I?”

This Great War was the largest, most destructive war that the world has ever laid eyes on. WWI was a worldwide war that changed the course of the twentieth century and it wasn’t a good change either. From 1870 to 1914, some developments slowly increased tensions among the European powers that led to the outbreak of World War I. The growth of militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism increased tensions that increased among all the European nations. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was caused by greed, chaos, and revenge Slavs in the Balkans during the 1917. World War I was caused from a conflict between Serbia and Austria-Hungary generating madness.

With over thirty-eight million casualties and over seventeen million recorded deaths, the First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts that the worldwide population has ever seen. World War I has been particularly exclusive in history in comparison to previous battles, by reason of the first major involvement of the world’s major powers in warfare in addition to the war’s foundation of causes that eventually led to the unavoidable commencement of bloodshed. The First World War was inevitable for many reasons that traced back to the beginning of the twentieth century, such as the formulation of European alliances, the inauguration of the armaments race and martial strength in European nations, and the rise of the encouragement of nationalism

Four years, three months and two weeks later, in 1918, the global series of destructive events, known as World War 1, that had begun when Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary finally came to an end. Resulting in the victory of the allied forces, establishing a safer place for democracy for a very short period of time. However it was not without a fight that this achievement came about, millions of troops lost their lives to the deadly chemical weapons, tanks and other weaponry. The war had so many devastating effects that British author H. G. Wells called it “The war to end war”, which now can be seen as an erroneous comment. In his article, “The War That Didn’t End All Wars” war studies professor at King’s college London, Sir Lawrence D. Freedman, quotes George Kennan’s words to describe the war as “the great seminal catastrophe” as the Great War led to the creation of a broken intergovernmental organization known as the League of Nation, left Germany completely destroyed financially and contributed to the collapse of the Austrian, Turkish and Russian Empire. World War 1 did not end war; instead it not only paved the way for the biggest war in history of mankind, World War 2, but also one of the worst genocides the world has ever seen, the Holocaust.

As the twentieth century dawned across the world, a new threat was posed across the nations. As World War One, and subsequently World War Two dawned in the earliest part of the twentieth century; the world suddenly knew a different reality. These two wars thrust the world, into a reality, of pain and death, something they had not had to face before. New weapons were invented, the population of mainland Europe was desecrated, and many tears were shed. Two wars that terrorized the world into their “new normal”, that is known to the present day today. With many possible, underlying causes to these two wars; the causes can be categorized into three main sections. A growing sense of Imperialism among the “white countries” of Europe, revolutions and the budding sense of Nationalism afterwards, and the growing sense of resentment (on Germany’s part).