(TBD) Causes of WW1

Mostly collected from the IB textbook Causes and Effects of 20th Century Wars Second Edition by Kelly Rogers and Jo Thomas.

Long term causes of WWI

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

Short term causes of WWI

The crisis years, war plans, the July crisis, the belief that war would be short and heroic, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)

Germany

France

Britain

Austria-Hungary

Russia

Turkey (The Ottoman Empire)

The Eastern Question

Bismarck's web of alliances

Weltpolitik

Imperialism

The Alliance Systems

The naval race

The situation in the Balkans

The Moroccan Crisis (1905)

The Bosnian Crisis (1908)

The Second Moroccan Crisis (1911)

The First Balkan War (1912)

The Second Balkan War (1913)

The international situation in 1913

Attitude towards war

The arms race

Militarism