The world before wars
World war
Imperialism
The Europeans wanted more power and more production, for that reason they look for new places to establish and exploited the new colonies
The start of the first and third nation concept
Imperialism must be understood as a general stage of economic development
Imperialism might end only with the final transformation of capitalism
Mission: Cultural changes, the nations with the power wanted to impose their traditions, religion and new movements like positivism
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Technological progress
railroad and telegraph were the most important advances to communicate
Main interest: Raw materials, efficient production, cheap labour, new market, increase the power of their fleets
Alliances might have been acomodated whitout a war. This alliances were form by supporting different places but also by the sort of races
Franz Ferdinand archduke of Austria-Hungary was assinated by Serbian terrorist in Sarajevo
The system of Alliances
The war required an unprotected movilization of resoruces
Germany invest in technology and military areas to increased as potencial country. This generated tension between the nations
Tensions had been brewing throughout Europe and in the Balkan region of southeast Europe
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The highest unequal distribution of resources
NATO confronted each other with high levels of arms
Social Darwinism: A fight between races and nations, only the strongest will survive, this include social unfairnesst, this is going to be divided by the phenotype and the tone of the skin would define your value
Third wold poverty seems unsustainable
Global inequalities
Some authors support the idea that 'Differences would not exist without imperialism' and also that 'Imperialism would transform into capitalism'
The states of central Europe divided the different nations and started to extend their empires with the purpose of increased their own countries in economical, technological and military terms
Hierarchical distribution, exploited people, bad conditions of work, unfair salaries, only the potential countries had a development
They encompassing parts of Africa, Asia, some parts of America, Egypt. There were a lot of problems because all the countries wanted a colony and sometimes they wanted the same
Germany invested in ships to compete against the British Navy
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
British, France and Russian
Bee or the war world, UK was the most powerful country
People started to migrate to USA, the idea of 'America for the Europeans'
Austria-Hungary and Serbia wanted to expanded their territory by the idea of the imperialism, the both of them wanted Bosnia for the naval strategy
Socialism with "Carl Marx"
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Austria-Hungary waited to had the support of Germany to declare the war to serbia
Austria-Hungary sent an ultimatum to Serbia, with terms were almost impossible to accept.
Serbian goverment order tehir army to movilize and appeal Russia for asitance
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
The World War I had begun when Russia, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Serbia had lined up against Austria-Hungary and Germany,