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Thematic Causes of WW1 (Economic (Domestic economic issues (Modern…
Thematic Causes of WW1
Ideology
The Schlieffen Plan:The arms race and war plans: Between 1870 and 1914, military spending by the European powers increased by 300%. This made possible for countries to apply conscription laws and obtain large standing armies. There was a massive increase in armaments as well. The German war plan intended to deal with the implications of the Triple Entente and the difficulty of fighting a two-front war.
Rearmament in Russia: by 1914, Rusia had 11 dreadnoughts class battleships under construction and a well equipped peacetime standing army of 1.3 million men
Naval race: The naval race between Germany and Great Britain between 1906 and 1914 created huge friction between both nations and it is seen as one of the causes of World War One. In 1906, Britain launched the first dreadnought – a ship that meant all others were redundant before its awesome fire power
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Social Darwinism. A theory arising in the late nineteenth century that the laws of evolution, which Charles Darwin had observed in nature. Social Darwinists argued that social progress resulted from conflicts in which the fittest or best-adapted individuals, or entire societies, would prevail.
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Russian Defeat in Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought during 1904–1905 between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the seas around Korea, Japan and the Yellow Sea.
Triple Alliance - was an agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. It was formed on 20 May 1882 and renewed periodically until it expired in 1915 during World War I. Germany and Austria-Hungary had been closely allied since 1879. ... In turn, Italy would assist Germany if attacked by France
Triple Entente - DescriptionThe Triple Entente refers to the understanding linking the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente on 31 August 1907. why?
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Serb nationalism
- 1908 Bosnian crisis p19
- 2nd Blakan War 1913 page 23
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It was this pan-Slavic nationalism that inspired the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914, an event that led directly to the outbreak of World War I. 1. Nationalism was an intense form of patriotism. ... German nationalism was a new phenomenon, emerging from the unification of Germany in 1871.
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Economic
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Domestic economic issues
Modern historians have drawn attention to the influence of internal politics on the cations of the great powers. Socialism had become a very popular political creed in Germany, Austria, Russia, Italy and France.
Indutrialization
Naval races the expansion of the French empires, fired by the rise of the industrialism and the pursuit of a short, aborted imperial policy in the late nineteenth century
Acquisition of Empire
Triple entente or allies-France, Britain, Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman empire are central powers. Alliance gives security nations unwilling to tip balance of power.
Political
Franco Russian alliance-
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the social reform:
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1901 - industrial arbitration courts were introduced to settle disputes between workers and employers.
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Territorial
- Territorial ambition for Russia and Serbia
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Bosnian CrisisThe Bosnian crisis of 1908–09, also known as the Annexation crisis or the First Balkan Crisis, erupted in early October 1908 when Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, territories formerly within the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire
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- Territorial ambition for Germany
First Moroccan Crisis Germany wanted britain and france relationship by attacking France in Morroco
Announced that Germany would support the sultan to maintain independance.
This was a humiliazion to the welpolitik and germany just gained comercial interest
Second Moroccan Crisis: Germans sent gunboat to Agadir to protect the German interests there intimidate. Germany got the French Congo as a compensation. At tye end the Naval armrace heightened and increased tension and hostility between Britain and Germany could this also be evidence of militarism and imperialism
Welpolitik: Germany's new imperialistic foreign policy that had as aim to make Germany a colonial power with overseas empire + navy
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- Territorial ambition for France
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- Protection of territory for Austria- Hungary
1908 Bosnian crisis The Bosnian crisis of 1908–09, also known as the Annexation crisis or the First Balkan Crisis, erupted in early October 1908 when Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, territories formerly within the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire
2nd Balkan War 1913 Second Balkan War. A conflict which broke out when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its share of the spoils of the First Balkan War, attacked its former allies, Serbia and Greece, on 16 June 1913.
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