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How did World War I break out? (Trigger (Alliances (Britain declares war…

- - - - Arms race - countries building a bigger Army, Navy and making more weapons - If you have a strong army or navy you are more likely to use it
      - Britain had large navy - Germany wanted one to develop overseas empire.
    - - Groupings forming in Europe
        
        Austria-Hungary - Triple Alliance - 1882
        
        Germany
        
        Italy
        
        Britain - Triple Entente - by 1907
        
        France
        
        Russia
      - Britain/Belgium, Russia/Serbia
    - - Britain and France already had Empires, Germany wanted one - especially in Africa
      - Germany Feared being encircled - Russia to the East, France to the West. Kaiser Wilhelm was Germany to be a 'World-Wide Power'
    - - Belief that your country was better - made nations more aggressive and more likely to start war
      - France wanted revenge - lost Alsace/Lorraine to Germany after the Franco-Prussian war in 1870-71
      - Austria-Hungary - made up of 11 different nations - worried about invasion from Russia - keen to expand into the Balkans - as was Russia.
      - Britain felt it stood between Germany and world domination
      - Germany and Britain making plans for war - Britain - British Expeditionary forces - 150,000 troops, Germany Schlieffen Plan.