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WW1 Causes - Coggle Diagram
WW1 Causes
European expansionism
Countries like Britain and France expanded their empires, it resulted in increased tensions among European countries.
The tensions were a result of many colonies often being acquired through coercion and once a nation had been conquered, it was governed by the imperial nation many of these were exploited by their mother countries.
Tensions rose between opposing empires, Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, leading to the creation of the Allied Powers (Britain and France) and Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire) during World War I
Serbian Nationalism
In the Balkans, Slavic Serbs sought independence from Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, and in 1878, they tried to gain control of Bosnia and Herzegovina to form a unified Serbian state
With the decline of the Ottoman Empire, Serbian nationalism continued to rise, culminating in the assassination of the Archduke of Austria in 1914 by a Bosnian Serb and officially triggering the start of the Great War.
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Conflicts over Alliances
The alliances promised that each country would support the other if war ever broke out between an ally and another Great Power
Triple Entente (France, Britain, and Russia), caused the most friction among nations. Germany felt that this alliance was a threat to their power and existence. As tensions continued to rise over alliances, the preexisting alliances fed into other countries declaring war against one another in the face of conflict.
These conflicts over alliances which forced nations to come to the defense of one another led to the formation of the two sides of World War I, the Allied and Central Powers.
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