Who's To Blame For World War One

It all started on June 28th, 1914 when the Archduke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist known as Gavrilo Princip. Princip was part of a group called the Black Hand and they wanted two main things from Austria-Hungary. They wanted more autonomy for Serbia and for the province Bosnia that was inside of Austria-Hungary to be annexed to Serbia instead. After all the commotion and assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary decided to declare war on Serbia. Many other countries joined in soon after or even a couple years later but who is really to blame for all of this? They all had some reason to get blamed but one of them seemed more at fault than the rest. Due to problems going on between Serbia and Austria-Hungary along with their allies, Serbia is the most to blame. In this War there was two main groups. The Triple Alliance that included the German Empire, Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire and then the Triple Entente that included the United States, France, Great Britain and Russia. Italy was involved as well but they were technically on
Militarism is the concept of an “arms race”. If one country has a limited amount of weapons or machinery then other countries have to step up their military and have more weapons and machinery than any other country. These actions can be very costly to keep up with. The third main cause is entangling alliances. Entangling alliances is the domino effect of global alliances. The two sides were thrown together because of convenience since back then you were friends with everyone and no one. But nowadays the domino effect is less likely to happen because of how clear the global alliance structures are. Then one of the final causes was because of newspapers and “Yellow Journalism”. Since newspapers could put blame on other countries and could fan flames of nationalism people started to think differently of other countries than they normally