The Immediate Cause Of World War I
World War 1(WW1), which is also recognized as “The Great War”, was a global war, mostly centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. While there was a chain of events that led to the fighting, there were many causes of the war, some of which remain unexposed today. There were immediate and underlying or fundamental causes of WW1. The distinction between an underlying cause and an immediate cause is that an immediate cause is a specific short-term, even that directly leads to another event or series of events, and an underlying cause develops over a long period of time and indirectly leads to a specific event and it may be difficult to discover or reveal them. The Immediate cause of WW1 was the assassination of French Duke Ferdinand and his wife at Sarajevo, (the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina) on 28th June 1914. However, the
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The naval arms race were mainly between Germany and Britain. Germany had an industrialized nation and as well an industrialized military. Germany spent a lot of money improving their military and other countries saw this as a threat, so they decided the improve their naval arms to counter The Schlieffen Plan. This led to the belief that war was coming. Britain who were the main rival of Germany decided to upgrade her military force by building the HMS dreadnought (the word means fear nothing),which was a very large, fast heavily armed battleships with guns. In response, Germany built a similar battleship, increasing tension and nerves. The German ruling group felt that the only way they can become a power was only through war. Militarism fathered a dangerous child, the arms race, that pushed European nations to equip, modernise and expand their military forces. As a result of the armaments race, all the European powers were prepared for a war, since it was characterized as a test of
The naval arms race were mainly between Germany and Britain. Germany had an industrialized nation and as well an industrialized military. Germany spent a lot of money improving their military and other countries saw this as a threat, so they decided the improve their naval arms to counter The Schlieffen Plan. This led to the belief that war was coming. Britain who were the main rival of Germany decided to upgrade her military force by building the HMS dreadnought (the word means fear nothing),which was a very large, fast heavily armed battleships with guns. In response, Germany built a similar battleship, increasing tension and nerves. The German ruling group felt that the only way they can become a power was only through war. Militarism fathered a dangerous child, the arms race, that pushed European nations to equip, modernise and expand their military forces. As a result of the armaments race, all the European powers were prepared for a war, since it was characterized as a test of