How Did The German Alliance Cause Ww1

In 1881, Germany came up with an alliance with Austria-Hungary and Russia called the “Three Emperors’ League”. During their alliances, both Germany and Russia had many disputes over Bosnia and Serbia because both were greedy for that land. This alliance went on until a Wilhelm II became the new emperor of Germany and fired of Bismarck who came with the alliance, and kicked Russia of the league. In 1908, France signed an alliance treaty with Russia and later on with Britain called The Triple Entente. As a response to The Triple Entente, Germany came up with their treaty alliances with Austria-Hungary, turkey and Bulgaria called the Central Powers. What really sparked the war were the Assassination of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a Serbian militant. Austrian got furious and blamed Serbia. More on, they even sent their militants to undertake Belgrade. This brought Serbia’s allies come and intervene in the dispute. Therefore, Germany and other allies came in to back Austria up and that is how the First World War began.
During that period, Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States and his foreign policy towards Europe was to stay “Neutral”. In other words, they were isolationist. The only thing that kept United States involvement was business and cultural ties Europe. This made Germany somewhat jealous because was US was having more business with The Triple Entente than the central power and they thought that they are kind aiding them. Therefore, Germans sent U-Boats to block of merchant ship from its destination and later sunk after being