Militarism Dbq

Militarism

Militarism as my main cause for World War 1, I chose to represent it as the bases in my cheer pyramid. The reasons behind why militarism was the main cause of the war was because Austria-Hungary felt threatened and needed to fight back. In document A it describes how Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austrian-Hungry Empire the people reacted in a negative way to regain revenge for their lost. In the document Gavrilo stats that he doesn’t regret his actions and feels like his actions were right. This killing could not just be pushed off; no they needed war to give them back the pain which leads to more pain and blood by this one action. From then on the war kept going on, heavy

and that lead to the building of new weapons newer and more powerful than the last.

If each country wanted to live they would have to keep up with all the new upgrades. In document J it shows how the military grew in its armed forces and as the war went on it shows that the technology and the effectiveness of weapons increased. The German military needed to expand and grow in their weapon power to win. That is why militarism is the number one cause for the war.

Alliances

The second main cause of the war was because of the alliances. As the war grew on the need for help and friends with neighboring countries became very necessary. In the picture I have used two lib's and the main prep fliers as the alliances. There were two great alliances called the Triple Entente and Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente was made up of Russia, France, and great Britain. The Triple Alliance was then made up of Germany,

Italy, and Austria Hungry and places in the center America were there neither as an ally or an enemy. The countries couldn’t survive without the other which made it the second main cause of World War 1. In document F it tells about how out of fear of Germany, France and Russia had come together to form an alliance. Then as a fight starts in the Balkans and Austria attacks Serbia, Russia comes and protects them as an alliance. Austria is then protected by Germany. From that Germany attacks France first as a target which leads to Russia claiming war against Germany and the war begins. In the next document discusses the alliance agreements. Just as Russia did when they came to the assistance of his fellow country France as did Germany to Austria as insurance to make sure that their empires were strengthened. A quote from document G “only conclude peace together and upon mutual agreement” which means that there will only be peace if they join forces and work together as one unit and that all parties can agree to the terms to keep their part in the alliance. As big and import the alliances were to the war they couldn’t be the main cause because the militarism started the first strike towards war for the need of alliances.

Nationalism

As the third main cause of World War 1 Nationalism was made because out of pride in the soldiers in this war were willing to risk whatever they could get their way.

From document A the man felt such anger and frustration towards the Austria Hungary empire for taking over, mistreating, and as an enemy of what this man believed in and out of nationalism he acted in protecting his country and what he believed. He risked it all just to make his point and that had made a huge impact causing uproar. He was doing his duty to his country to free the Italians, which he took into his own hands to handle. When the war got into its full fury, it was televised for everyone to watch. The men of those countries had an idea of what war was like and they had a need and want to be recognized as a hero of his country. The TV showed them what they want to see; how it was glamorous, glorious and heroic. The men had pure nationalism to fight for their country to be seen as a hero. After all the wars and the making the alliances there had become a great need for new strong men to put on the field so they needed those men to be willing to risk anything for their

country.

Imperialism

The final and last main cause of World War 1 was imperialism represent as the very top of the pyramid. The person has the world map all over it's body showing land and territory during the war. This is the last main cause because things started as land disputes then led to more personal things and then who had the better stuff. In document C it talks about how the British noticed that the Germans were building bigger, better battleships which were a problem because Britain claimed the North Sea and the Germans were in their territory with stronger better machinery. In World War 1 a large portion of it was trying to make and create bigger, stronger better weapons to protect the territory. The British had grown in their navy to compete with Germany to survive. As well, in document T it shows a chart how much land, population, colonies and the population of those colonies. In the chart Germany had the greatest advantage in population and in how much land they had. If the countries had very little of either of those it would put them at a great disadvantage and it did. Germany was well feared and became very strong because of how much it had to put out.