WWI Causes

The birth of World War One had been one of history's most significant events. To begin with, there were many possible factors that could have triggered the "The Great War". The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (figure 2) was the first thing in the sequence of events that took place before the war had started. However, that was not the most significant incident that sparked the First World War; the main reasons behind how it all began were militarism, alliance system, imperialism, and nationalism. …