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World War I Was The First Major War

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World War I was the first major war in history, conflicts between the Europe itself and of course US. The war lasted four years, from the summer of 1914 to fall of 1918, there are a few causes that led to the war, and there is the immediate and the underlying cause of the war. The immediate cause would be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, sort of like a spark for the war, the underlying cause is the long term effect of the war that it would consist, would be the military power, imperialism , and nationalism and alliance system. It was a war between the central power and the allied powers, member of the allied powers are Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States, and the member of the central powers are Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. The nations that was involved in the war, the war made the nations to be more industrialized, in manufacturing, different machinery, equipment more tactical way to fight during the war. Upon preparation for the war these countries developed advance weapons and also airplanes, and submarines. Most wars and battles before this time period were fought on land, but during this era, there was war at sea and war in the air this was new development for the humans with science and technological improvements. This was a first for the world and the developments of these advanced machinery and equipment’s would have a major effect to the world events later on the years. Alliance system was the first

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