The Causes Of WWI

One of the main reasons of World War I was because of nationalism which means respect for ones country. Militarism also played its role in this war because it was a country who was always ready for war. The biggest cause of the war was on June 28th, 1914. It was the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand. The killing was done by a Serbian nationalist who killed the Archduke on his trip to Sarajevo.

This led to Austria blaming the Serbians for this incident and pulled this into the brink of war. One after another countries started to defend one another. Germany considered Austria to be on the same side as them so they would be able to help them out in war. Soon other countries decided to join saying if they declare war on Serbia then they declare war on the opposing country. One after another led to the beginning of World War One. Once this happened Austria allied with germany and with that power had total control over the serbians and then two alliances formed the triple alliance which consisted of Germany,Austria-Hungary,Italy and there was also the triple Entente which had the United Kingdom,France and Russia.