Why Did World War 1 Start

There are many contributors and reasons as to how World War 1 had started, but three large factors were militarism, nationalism, and the alliance system. The alliance system was made with two separate groups - the Central powers and the Allied powers. The alliance system is when countries join forces or worked together to achieve a certain goal or for safety reasons. Joining an alliance system was often done in secret and then later revealed to the public at a later time. If Germany never allied with Austria-Hungary, we could have totally avoided that war. When Germany declared war on a specific country, the other countries allied to Germany had to declare war on said country. The alliance system that were formed by Germany and Austria-Hungary was named the “Dual Alliance” and was a promise to declare war on Russia if they ever attacked either country. When countries started practicing militarism, other countries began to get intimidated (like Germany intimidating everyone via militarism.) As Germany kept continuing their

militarism, which triggered other countries to be fearful of them, it is one of few contributions to the beginning of the war. It caused people to be fearful of Germany since they seemed so powerful, so someone had to put them in their place. Nationalism is to have great pride and loyalty towards your country. It gave citizens excessive confidence in their nation, their governments, and their military strength. As a lot of the German were nationalists, it made the Germans twice as more intimidating to other countries. Nationalism made other countries even more fearful of what Germany could do to them, so this contributor to WWI caused even more anxiousness and paranoia for rival countries.
WWI began on July 28, 1914 because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Precisely a month after Archduke Ferdinand’s death (June 28, 1914,) Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, which somewhat triggered a huge domino affect, causing mass declaration of war (aka a world war.) In the beginning, war was announced on one country on the behalf of another (i.e., Russia declaring war on Austria-Hungary for Serbia.) The tense, nationalistic ways of the Austro-Hungarian Empire gave that area the name the “Powder Keg of Europe”, which meant that they were an area of high nationalism and low tolerance for neighboring countries who were also very violent people. When they decided to declare war on Serbia, their alliance with Germany and Italy kicked in. Militarized Germany and Italy declared war on Serbia. Anyone allied with Serbia or any other country in the war had to join, of course, as well as other countries for different

reasons.
The Industrial Revolution was a period of time, beginning in the late 18th and early 19th century, in which rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. During this period transportation, communication and banking all improved, along with factories, mass production, and machinery. Industrial Revolution meant putting more people into work to cause mass production, which was when products were produced at large amounts, usually in assembly lines. Mass production was probably one of the most effective and deadly ways of battle, since mass production meant more factories creating supplies for war such as artillery and medical supplies, which put soldiers fighting for the country with mass production at an advantage. Because of the Industrial Revolution, the stability of the world both increased and decreased. More people were getting put to work which meant a lot of people were getting paid and there was less poverty. It caused products to be easily acquirable and affordable as well. But when WWI came around, people began to be overworked and had less pay because of that money being needed for war supplies. The Industrial Revolution caused us to move faster into our modern age than ever before. It was a very important time in our history because without it, we wouldn’t be as advanced as we are today.