World War I consisted of four different M.A.I.N reasons why ww1 started. These causes are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and …show more content…
Countries saw other countries with advanced technology which caused competition within the weapons they had. Even though archduke was assassinated because of nationalism I feel like it still wouldn’t have had much of a bigger effect like the alliances did. Imperialism is another one that started it, and it created problems between Britain and france with Germany because Britain and France owned lots of land. They still wouldn’t have had other people join the war if the alliances were never made. It would just be that one country and another country at war instead of another country's allies behind brought into the war regardless of if they did anything. Alliances overall had a better contribution towards starting World War