Why Is World War 1 Inevitable
With something as tragic as millions of livWorld war I can be blamed on a combination of three events or idea’s and characteristic of the time. One of the events that caused the first world war was the large amount of alliances the world over. The treaties of the time conflicted with the growing popularity of imperialism. In the general populace resides the third cause, as the conflict between alliance and growth is not enough without people to fight for the country at war that is were militarism comes in. The countries of the world had been stockpiling weapons for decades. Motivated by pride many people decided to aid in the fight for their country or the right to be such in the case of the slavic people. World war I was inevitable because
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The perfect gun however still needs a trigger to be shot this trigger was literally an assassination. I believe that the more figurative trigger to world war I was the overactive exponential expansion of the more imperialistic countries. When you look at the time countries like britain and the ottoman empire were constantly increasing the territories they “control.” In reality the imperialistic expansion of these countries happened far too fast to be stable. The reason I label that as unstable is because it's like a room with a gas in it if you don't contain it the border of the expansion becomes thiner and thiner. Thinning borders is exactly what happened when borders of competing countries started to overlap chaos ensued over ownership of discovered resources. With the border disputes weakening relations the gap between the allied forces and the central powers widened furthering the tension to the point where it rivaled a game of jenga with one middle block on each story. The problem being that in real life relations there is no magical fix all “tie” that would happen in that example. In the event were the world is on its last straw something as small as a archduke being assassinated can kickstart a war involving the entire world (add your choice of emotional tone to the end of that sentence for effect). But when the world hit that critical point every country was ready for a war to happen because of one little
The perfect gun however still needs a trigger to be shot this trigger was literally an assassination. I believe that the more figurative trigger to world war I was the overactive exponential expansion of the more imperialistic countries. When you look at the time countries like britain and the ottoman empire were constantly increasing the territories they “control.” In reality the imperialistic expansion of these countries happened far too fast to be stable. The reason I label that as unstable is because it's like a room with a gas in it if you don't contain it the border of the expansion becomes thiner and thiner. Thinning borders is exactly what happened when borders of competing countries started to overlap chaos ensued over ownership of discovered resources. With the border disputes weakening relations the gap between the allied forces and the central powers widened furthering the tension to the point where it rivaled a game of jenga with one middle block on each story. The problem being that in real life relations there is no magical fix all “tie” that would happen in that example. In the event were the world is on its last straw something as small as a archduke being assassinated can kickstart a war involving the entire world (add your choice of emotional tone to the end of that sentence for effect). But when the world hit that critical point every country was ready for a war to happen because of one little