World War One: Archduke Franz Ferdinand And Aggression Of European Nations

My opinion is that, World War One was caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and aggression of European nations. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip. This caused a series of events between Austria Hungary and Serbia that would lead to what we know as World War One. Austria Hungary and Serbia had both made alliance agreements with other countries. After the Archdukes death these alliances were enacted. Soon afterward Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia. The Alliances "Allied powers" and "Central powers" were now both to wage war against each other. The Allied powers consisted of France, Britain, and Russia. The Central powers consisted of Germany, Austria Hungary, and Ottoman Empire. Later America would soon join the Allied powers and Italia was part of the central powers but after some of the war agreements had been broken Italia withdrew. This war would bring death, economic loses, and economic growth throughout the war. New technology would be developed not only for war but scientific advances for each country.

Some of the other main causes besides the Archdukes assassination were Mutual Defense alliances, Imperialism, Militarism, and Nationalism.

The mutual defense alliances were the agreements each country had with other country's. Meaning that if one could that had an agreement with another was attacked they would come to their aid to help. Imperialism was the ambitious expansion of territory of another country either through political pressures or military force. Nationalism was the Slavic people were no longer wanting to be part of Austria Hungary and sought independence which lead to Princip (a nationalist) assassinating Franz

Ferdinand.
The war required all of the economically power countries to be involved to use their resources to advance their weaponry, technology, and anything to help develop sufficient success in the battlefield. This brought a flow of money and drain throughout the whole world. Money was both being spent very quickly and being made very quickly. The war itself was economically helpful and hurtful. The different company's developing weapons and vehicles for troops to use made money. The government that needed these tools spent money.
The war meant that each country would have to develop new advancements in weaponry, vehicles and anything that would help improve their warfare. New weapons had been developed such as the machine gun. Tanks had been developed. Vehicles were being made to with stand severe conditions making them more reliable. Aircraft were improved for longer flight, agility, speed, and fighting. Submarines had been developed. Chemical warfare itself had been improved as well. One one of the more developed strategic and most well know battle plan were trenches. Trenches became notorious throughout WWI. Trench warfare itself was not very offensive but occasionally soldiers would leave their trenches in mass quantities and attack in shier numbers. This lead to major loses because of the machine guns being used to cut down enemy lines.
The war itself lead to new advancements in science, warfare, technology, vehicle advancements, medical advancements and many other things. War itself was very economically ironically. After the war the economy fell through because none of the things being developed were over produced and since the war was over no one needed any of those things anymore so that left countries with an abundance of supplies and no one to sell it to. If the war had continued the economy would have had a steady flow but it would come to an end eventually. The war was beneficial in some ways and in others it was not. The war took its toll in europe, but the war lead to some of the modern things we have today. So you can argue that war is good or bad for the economy, the development of newer technologies or for the loses in human life, economical crisis and many other things