factors of ww1
Factors of WW1 The First World War, was a war centred in Europe that began on 28 July, 1914 and lasted until and ended on 11 November, 1918. One of the major event in the human history which was fought mostly by soldiers in trenches but later introduced the machine gun, poison gas, tanks and other weapons into battle which also helped humans to advance the technology for destruction of each other. Human curiosity and creatives ideas that helped us to be more civilized like industrialization, which created the major factors of World War 1, nationalism, imperialism and militarism. Nationalism a pride, power, loyal belief and sense toward theirs birthplace, their nation. That made everyone believed that their nation to be best and worth fighting for. “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....” (Shaw). All of those supports and determination by the people made them to give their government more power and control over them. It also converted people to hate other who are not one of them rather than being proud of who they are. “Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first”(Gaulle). It all took is hate among nations which created nations to go into alliances system and often these alliances got quite tangled and would eventually be seen as probably the one of the main causes for the war. “... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...” (Gaskell). Imperialism when a country increases their power and wealth by bringing additional territories under their control in which the european were good at. “I came, I saw, I conquered.” (Caesar). Imperialism and nationalism they both go back and forth to contribute to the WW1. Like european believed that their race was superior started colonizing and imperialising africa, latin america and parts of Asia.“When the white
Cited: Brown, Brandon. “Causes of WWI (The Great War).” cnx.org. web 17 Feb. 2014. Winston, 2000. Print. Phaedrus