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