Assess The Causes Of Imperialism

Nationalism is the devotion and loyalty to one’s own country. Nationalism is commonly mistaken as a permanent factor in political behavior; nationalism has been around since the 18th century, and spread to the ancient parts of Africa and Asia in the early 20th century. Nationalism is the main cause of imperialism, militarism and alliances. Initially imperialism was caused by nationalism; this being that nationalism can lead to imperialism in a powerful country. Since the people were so proud and hopeful of their country, they wanted to expand it, as well as wanting it to be better than the other countries. An example of imperialism caused by nationalism is taking an empire; the Germans in WW1 believed they were in need of an empire to show that they were better than France was. Imperialism is all about expanding and developing new things. When people are so prideful in their country they want to look better than everyone else and make sure they are the very best and will go to large measures to do so. Another example of imperialism is the Britain
The alliance systems were all formed at different times and some even moved around to different alliances, having alliances in WW1 was at large a rather good but bad idea seeing that when one member of their alliance was threatened or attacked they all came together and threatened the opponent back, sometimes when this happened the enemy would retreat. An example of this would be when the Archduke and his wife of Austria-Hungary were assassinated, the Austria -Hungarians were convinced it was Serbians were the ones that did this and so Austria-Hungary told Germany about it and Germany was ready to attack Serbia. Eventually Germany and Austria-Hungary made an alliance with Italy to stop them from supporting