HIST-206 Lecture 48: World War I Study Guide
15 Jan 2019
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Cause #1 aggressive nationalism: germany and france, nationalism built modern germany new germany was built at. Ottoman turkey: balkan states attack turkey in 1912 serbia, rumania, bulgaria, Greece: in 1914 the balkans are known as the powder keg of europe . Cause #2 imperial & economic rivalries among european powers: britain resented germany"s rapid economic growth, imperialism france and germany fight over morocco, this causes britain to side with france. Cause #3 alliances: many european nations distrusted one another because of this many nations formed alliances and 2 large alliances formed, 1872 otto von bismarck knew france wanted to avenge the franco- Cause #4 militarism: militarism glorification of the military, militarism grew out of social darwinism, germany starts to build a navy that rivals britain"s, britain begins spending more money on their navy to compete with. Germany: this leads to an arms race, arms race nations stockpiling weapons in order to be greater than other nations.
