effects and events that helped cause the first world war.

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effects and events that helped cause the first world war.

Causes

  • militarism- increasing the size o an army
  • alliances- countries making agreements to suppourt each other
  • impearlism- countries wanted to increase power
  • nationalism- contries wanted to fight for their independence
  • moroccan crisis 1905
  • bosnia 1908
  • agadir 1911
  • balkan wars 1912-1913

Effects

  • m) the arms race which meant germany competed with britian and france to see who could build the biggest army.
  • a) meant to prevent war but made it more likely, each country thought they were planning war against
  • i) Germany were jealous of other countries and wanted to extend their empire. This led to tensions in morocco when kaiser wants to build an empire in the north africa
  • n)  this made countries wary of each other, This is why germany france and russia were rearming
  • m) Kaiser and france both wanted to take over morocco, Kaiser wanted to become more indipendent, Germany was humiliated at the conference in 1906 as he is trying to test the entente cordiale
  • b) austria took over bosnia in the balkans from the turks which annoyed serbia, russia wanted to help serbia as they promised if they got in trouble, but russia wasn't powerful enough.
  • a)revolution in morrocco, france sent  army over to help put down the rebellion but the kaiser sent a gunship called the pantha over to stir trouble, britian and france forced him back down
  • b) serbia and other counties in the balkans conquered most of the turkey land in eurpoe. serbia became powerful country and said austria hungary was its next country.

Overall summary

overall i can tell that the kaiser is not that powerful however he is very competative, we see this in militarism in the arms race that the kaiser is trying to build a bigger army which is why they competed as well as in the morroccan crisis, he as trying to test the entenete cordiale but was once again backed down, he made a copy of the dreadnought and called it the pantha,. The reason why serbias next target was austria hungary in the balkan wars was because in bosnia 1908, austria took over bosnia in the balkans which made serbia very angry, to get their own back they went back and done the same. 

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touka1785

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this is great but the bit about the alliances is not very clear