World War I causes

World War I. In this essay we are going to talk about World War I and its causes. World War I —also known as “the war to end all the wars”— was a war that started in 1914 and ended in 1919. It began in Europe, giving as result the blood of thousands of innocents and people implied in the war. Besides the many human losses, there was little loss or win of land, which doesn’t matter much compared to all the damages given by it. This war began with the assassination of the archduke of Austria, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie during their visit to Sarajevo, a city of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the moment there were many problems in Europe. At the time, Austria-Hungary saw this as a great opportunity to attack their neighbor, Serbia. The first ones to get into war were France, the United Kingdom and Russia (known as the allies, or Allied Forces) and as the Central Powers were Germany and Austria-Hungary. The M.A.I.N. causes or conflicts of this war were militarism, alliances, imperialism and Nationalism, of which we’ll talk in the next paragraphs. One of the principal causes to the outbreak of war was militarism. First of all, let’s define militarism: Militarism is the belief that the government or the nation should have great military power in order to be prepared aggressively to defend or promote the interests of the nation. Some decades before 1914, the development of weapons (guns, rifles, etc.) grew considerably, along with the production of weapons that had the terrifying power to kill in great masses. With the creation of new techniques to produce guns, the western nations made guns and munitions in larger quantities at a rapid pace. Also, many of the governments that reigned over Europe were easily influenced by the power of the military. The generals, instead of acting as civilians, were government ministers, always concerned on the defense of the nation. They also tried solving diplomatic or politic problems with the