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Causes of WW1 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - A group of people who would suppress liberal ideas by killing anyone who supported. This created a rise in tension which contributed to the causes of WW1.
        Possible Reasons for the Revolutions:
        
        Conservative governments wanted control and suppressed the ideas of the French Revolution
        
        Liberals realizing they wanted freedom in the unpromising atmosphere of the postwar order.
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        Beginning of Alliances (1872-1882)
        
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        Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
        
        There was a dispute over who would gain the throne of France. France did not want a prussian leader on the throne because they would then be surrounded by Germany and Spain. They did not want a Prussian royal on the throne. Germany had no interest in this and set a letter to reassure France explaining this. However, Bismarck intervened this message saying that they were in fact going to appoint a Prussian royal on the throne, in order to provoke war. France sees this and goes to war with Prussia, with Prussia knowing they were going to win it.
        
        Essentially, Bismark kept provoking wars he knew he could win in order to make Prussia stronger.
        
        France eventually was humiliated and had lost national respect which explains why they were so interested in imperialism in order to make their country stronger.
        
        Austro-Prussian War (1866)
        
        Austria had violated a small part of the treaty between them and Prussia. Prussia (Bismark) used this as an excuse to wage war on Austria because they knew it was a war they would win. Bismark wanted war because it was a part of the strategy to make Prussia stronger.
        
        Bismark Appointed
        
        Prussian assembly parliament was made up of the wealthy middle class who wanted society to be less militaristic. This went against king Wilhelm the 1st’s vision of expanding the army. However this meant for a bigger defense budget and higher taxes. The parliament wanted to establish that they, not the king, held ultimate political power. They also wanted to ensure that the army was responsible to Prussia’s representatives.
        
        The parliaments rejected the military budget and so Wilhelm called on Bismarck to head a new ministry to defy the parliament.
        
        Bismark was a master of politics and desired power. He declared that the government would rule without the consent of the parliament and eventually reorganized the army.
        
        Revolutions of 1848
        
        During the revolutions of 1848, the bourgeoisie and other workers were fighting against the old order. Women loaded weapons and tended to the injured while children carried messages from barricade to barricade. Eventually, they demolished the consevatove order after the downfall of Napoleon in 1815. However, territorial conflicts caused tension among ethnic minorities who demanded independent rights. Conservatives were able to sway these minorities into their favor and successfully destroyed liberal rights everywhere.