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Essay on First World War

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World War I is also known as First world war or Great war. It was a global conflict that in 1914-18 involved most of the countries of Europe along with Russia, the Middle East, the United states and many other areas (Autesserre, 2012). This war cavities the main powers like Germany, Turkey and Austria- Hungary against the Allies- mainly Russia, Japan, France, Italy, Great Britain and from 1917, the United states. It finished by the failure of the central powers. The war was nearly unexampled in the thrashing, slaughter and devastation it caused. According to the Acuña (2015), there were a series of events that are the causes of fighting but the actual real root causes are much deeper. This was started in August 1914 and were terminated in the fall of 1918. Imperialism, Nationalism, Alliances and Militarism were the causes of World War I. Coffman (2014) says that nations throughout Europe done the defence agreements that had force them into battle, means, if any on the nation was attacked, then other allied countries were bounded to prevent them. This was known as Alliances. At the beginning of World War One , Austria- Hungary and Germany got allied and converted into triple alliance, when Italy has joined in 1882. On the contrary, Goemans (2012) says that dreadful of that Alliance, in 1894, France had made an alliance with Russia and in the year of 1904 France also done an agreement with Britain that is called Entente. This was not a formal alliance but a commitment to work together. Britain had done entente with Russia in the year of 1907 and this formed the Triple Entente. As the per the view point of Kaldellis and Zafirakis( 2011) government and politicians were thinking that the creation of armed forces may create the peace. This will act as a warning to any country that are thinking to attack on them, but now a days every one know different. Hewitt (2014) says that Alliances helped become the reason of World War I because the triple coalition afraid Germany. They were having the felling that they are surrounded by the alliance. This made them disturbed and cause an uneasy environment. For example, when Britain had connected to Triple Entente and Russia and France were forming an alliance against Germany, they fearfully wished to attack and started building their Empire and forces. According to Hogg (2016) this is a sound or valid reason for initiating World War One as each and every nation desired to be one step ahead from others. Alliances and Militarism are closely connected becausewhen Germany was building her Empire and forces, she was also developing her Militarism. TheMichel and et. al.( 2011) say that another reason was Imperialism. European countries were 1
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ruling smaller nations known as colonies and were competing with each other in order to gather more colonies became called as Imperialism. France and Britain had gathered many colonies in Asia and Africa and due to that Germany was also decided to create a colonial empire. Imperialism helped cause World War One as Germany was getting jealous of the nations that are having other places where they could collect raw materials and cheapest labour. Because of Germany was creating her Empire very quickly , Britain got distressed about the power and started to improve their Empire. As Germany was building her domain at a fast rate, most of the nation create alliances with them as they think they will win the war Roest and et. al.( 2011) think this impacted the creation of World War One because each and every nation desired more than the others and in the ending, the most probable thing occur, is that Germany and Britain wished the similar country, and this would end up with a battle. As per the view point of Acuña (2015) Militarism was also a cause of WWI because enhanced military contention led not only to the feeling that war was coming and when Britain created the HMS Dreadnought in the year of 1906, Germany generated a same battle ship and increased the stress and nerves. For example, colonial competition had led to a military service arms race between Germany and Britain . This worsened the relationships between both nations.This rivalry ultimately turned to covetously and possible hatred, making this a first time to begin a war. Coffman (2014) thinks that this was a good reason to start a war because the rivalry between the powers led to creation of weapons and an increment in distrust. Militarism is also connected to the Nationalism because each and every nation were nationalist about themselves. They thinking that they are superior and hence, they should have a best army. Nationalism is cause of World War I because a patriot Serbian terrorist unit known as the Black Hand assassinated the arch duke Franz Ferdinand 28th June 1914.Hewitt (2014) says that it was Serbians only who was assassinated the successor to the Austro- Hungarian's because they were instantly made connection with the Russians. This gave them a feeling of secureness and confidences but Austria were having a strong connection with Germany had announced war. Russia started to mobilise due to its alliance with Serbia, Germanydeclared a war against Russia. Thus, began the elaboration of the war to involve all those included in the mutual defence alliances. 2
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