What cause the world war 1?
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Killing of Archduke was a trigger moment, I think.\nThe real cause was that Germany started rising very fast and it has discovered that it was left behind by countries like British Empire, US and France. True, they had big economies and vast colonial territories (like Britain and France)in Africa and Asia, plus European map consisted of unsolved puzzles.\nThe steadfast growing of German economy and its advance in military technologies made it possible to challenge the world leaders of that time and finish first the Austria-Hungary Empire.\nUltimately, the cause for WW 1 were nonnegotiable contradictions within the Great Powers of that time.
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Germany was doing poorly after WWI. They were faced with the entire debt of that war. The economy was falling apart and they needed a strong leader to pull it together. Hitler spoke of socialism, which is a great idea! But, it is impossible because of people's nature. He sold it on that, and got power.
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Well, to work backwards, then forwards: The men who owned the military equipment factories and other factories, wanted to take over the world's markets.  The American businessmen and the German businessmen wanted to conquer the world, but the Germans got greedy and wanted it all, so we split.  This is what caused the war with Germany and America.  Japan was allied with Germany, as was Italy and Mussolini wanted colonies in Africa, as did Germany.  The United States put an oil blockade around Japan, which in Napoleon's time was considered an informal declaration of war, so Japan bombed Pearl Harbon on December 7th, 1941.  \n Before that, General Motors made Tanks for the Germans and engines for one of their fighter bombers, (the JU-88, I think).  Germany had a Steel Empire called KRUPP steel.\n  This steel company financed Hitler and later used slave labor in the war. Krupp steel also built steel mills in Japan, which were used to make Japanese weapons, guns, cannons and aircraft carriers.  After the war, that steel company was called Mitsubishi steel, which now makes automobiles.  Krupp steel was divided up into 68 companies after the war.  \n  World War I was also financed by Krupp steel, which made a lot of money selling guns and cannons to the government.\nIt involved Trench Warfare, and almost became a stalemate, since until the Tank was invented, there was no way to go across No Man's Land to attack the enemy with enough force to destroy him. \n  By the way, in 1916, an epidemic of flu broke out which later became the Pneumonia Pandemic of 1918, which killed millions of people and is supposed to come back any year now, (but Bird Flu has taken the spotlight in the news.)  But the bad weather and unsanitary and unhealthy conditions in the trenches gave the soldiers this sickness in WW1.\n  For the causes of World War I and World War II, we have to go back a long time.  The land called Alsace-Lorraine, in France now, has/and had iron ore and coal.  During the Black Plague a lot of people left this area and a man named Krupp bought up 243 deeds.  About two hundred years later, one of his descendents started making iron, and later, an heir wanted to make steel, and learned how to do that.\n  With this steel he first made spoons, but they were too small for him to sell in Austria.  He later started making gun barrels, and made a lot of money selling gun barrels.\n  At that time cannons were made out of brass, and brass cannons start to melt when they are fired too much.  The land where the steel was made was in what used to be called Prussia, which had a king named Frederick the Great, who was a Despot.  A despot is an isolated, individual will who is unchallenged.  Frederick the Great was considered educated, or Enlightened.  Other examples of a despot are Catherine the Great of Russia, and Louis XIV of France, Hitler, Stalin, and Franco.  Also, Henry VIII could be called a despot.  Anyone that says The State is Me, or I am the Law, who can have your head cut off if you disobey them, is a despot.  In a democracy we can challenge despots because we have the Bill of Rights, which allows freedom of assembly, and of speech, and of belief, etc.\n  Also, we have three branches of governement, so each branch checks the other to keep it from becoming despotical.\n Otherwise the President would be a despot.  But the people must maintain eternal vigilance to preserve their Liberty.\n  And other people do not have our system of government.\n France lost Alsace-Lorraine to the Prussians in 1871.  France got the land back after WWI, at Versailles.  The Germans took it over from the French when it invaded France after it invaded Poland, Austria, and cut Czechoslovakia in half.  If France had resisted with 3 divisions it could have stopped the german advance.  If the german tanks had not stopped to call Berlin for directions, they could have gone all the way to the Atlantic the first few days without any resistance.  The german c
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In which war, WWI or WWII?
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After WWI, the Allies decided that they were going to punish Germany for causing WWI.  The fact that Germany was no more at fault than France or England was not an issue.  Germany was severely punished, and the result was the rise of Hitler, which consequently lead to WWII.\n\nAfter WWII, the US wanted to avoid another war, and they had learned the hard way that keeping the loser down was not a good idea.  Rebuilding Japan (and Germany) was the best way to ensure future security and hopefully cooperation between the two nations.
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As you know, WW1 started with the assassination of an Austrian leader. At the end of WW1, Germany was still in a depressed state (like economic depression), and the time was ripe for new radical leadership with the ousting of the old. This new radical leadership, along with the newly invented propaganda machine of television, and Germany's economic state of despair, were the reasons for WW2. Hitler believed expansion of his "kingdom" (third Reich) was essential for Germany's economic prosperity. And at the time, gold was a limited supply, same as today, except that all money was backed by gold. Today, money is not backed by gold. And a limited supply of money made war an economical advantage, they war, they win, they take your gold. Today war is an economical burdon, it is not for gold, but for power.
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Wow, just ignore the previous post. Someone has their wars mixed up.\n\nThe United States was neutral during WWI because they felt that this was a European conflict, and none of their business. What drew us into the war was a German U-boat attack on a US ship.
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World War I\n\nWEB LINKS\n\nPRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS.\n\nFantastic Resources.\n\nhttp://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-WorldWar1.htm\n\nWorld War I\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWusaG.htm\n\nAlthough the USA had strong ties with Britain, Wilson was concerned about the large number of people in the country who had been born in Germany and Austria. Other influential political leaders argued strongly in favour of the USA maintaining its isolationist policy. This included the pacifist pressure group, the American Union Against Militarism.\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook38.html\n\nRead and listen to stories of the War from the people who lived it. Explore diaries, letters, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, photos and keepsakes.\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/\n\nhttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/\n\nhttp://www.wfa-usa.org/new/links.cfm\n\nAn Internet History of The Great War\n\nhttp://www.worldwar1.com/\n\nhttp://www.wfa-usa.org/new/lcav.htm\n\nhttp://www.theaerodrome.com/\n\nGood luck\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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basically it means that the majority of the countries of the world were at war. The first world war was against germany. \n\nUSA, and Europe, Africa, etc. were fighting to remain free.
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Essentially, WW2 was a result of this and other factors, including unrealistic expectations and unresolved conflicts from WW1. Millions were killed in Europe, Russia, Asia Minor, Asia, China, the Pacific Island nations, the US troops fighting in those theaters of war, and involved virtually the entire world. The United States emerged as the leading powerhouse and the Soviet Union a major nemesis until its collapse in 1989-1990.
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The principal reason Russia entered World War I was because Russia still felt itself to be the hereditary protector of the self-determination of Slavic peoples in Europe (also, Russia and Slavs are Orthodox Christian, Austria and Hungary are Catholic Christian). Serbia, a kingdom racially made up largely of Slavic peoples, was threatened by Austria Hungary after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. When Austria threatened to invade Serbia, Russia ordered a partial mobilization (calling up of reserves and deploying its army) against Austria as a deterrent. Germany, who was Austria's principal ally, declared war against Russia.\n\nRussia's position as hereditary protector of the Serbs came about through the centuries long conflict with the expanding Ottoman Turkish Empire which placed the Balkans under the Ottoman Yoke, the enlsavement, persecution and exploitation of the Christian population (largely Orthodox Christian, just like the majority in Russia). In the late 1800's and very early 1900's, in a series of conflicts called the Balkan Wars, Russia was instrumental in forcing Turkey out of almost all of the Balkan Peninsula.\n\nRussia and Austria had been allies in the Napoleanic Wars and afterwards for several decades, but in the Crimean War Austria made a deal with England to not declare neutrality (at the time, when a friend went to war, you declared your neutrality so your friend did not have to deploy soldiers in defense against your possible attack). As a result, Russia felt it had to send many of its best soldiers to guard against Austria while sending politically unreliable soldiers such as Polish and Asians, who did not perform well against England and France. Russia lost the war and never forgave Austria. In 1866, Prussia instigated a war against Austria; when Prussia won, part of the peace was a forced alliance from Austria.\n\nI hope this helps.
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World War II had six major causes: anger over the Versailles Treaty, the failure of the peace efforts after World War I, the rise of Fascism, the goals of Hitler, the isolationism by America and Britian, and the re-armament of Europe.
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Definitely not. The country as a whole was not culpable for WWI, and for that matter, the leaders of Germany were not culpable. The whole thing could have been solved diplomatically, but as soon as Archduke Ferdinand was killed, Austria demanded certain things, Serbia refused, and there was a cascade of declarations of war. It's absurd to say that Germany was responsible for all of this. At the very least, Britain and France should have mediated the conflict between Austria and Serbia BEFORE it came to declarations of war.\n\nThere's also the fact that the reparations were not about keeping Germany from doing it again, they were about punishment. All they really needed to do after the war was establish monitoring systems to make sure Germany was not rebuilding a military, the one thing they didn't do.
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In addition to machine guns and many different types of poison gas (mustard, chlorine, etc.), there was also the grenade, the flamethrower, the tank, and the zeppelin. Although there were some airplanes, they did not play a huge role in WWI because they still weren't developed enough to do much damage.\n\nYou should check out http://firstworldwar.com, it's bound to have all the info you need on WWI. :O
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WWI began in 1914.  Germany is regarded as the primary agressor, but nationalist sentiments played a big role in all European countries, and there was great enthusiasm for the war on all sides.  Germany was allied with Austria-Hungary and Turkey (then known as the Ottoman Empire) against Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and later the United States (Japan also made small contributions on the allied side in order to seize German overseas posessions).  The U.S. entered in 1917, after Germany adopted a policy of unresctricted submarine warfare which was striking at U.S. shipping interests (including the supply of munitions to Britain) and inflicting civilian casualties.  The war ended on November 11th 1918. The uneasy peace which followed set the stage for all the major 20th century problems, from WWII, to the rise of communism, to the Balkan Wars, to the current tensions in the middle east. Bummer.
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The United States and Britain!\nAnd here is the reason for it since the first World War!\n\nhttp://www.thelastoutpost.com/site/1330/default.aspx
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According to Wikipedia - \n\n"The First World War also saw the use of chemical warfare and aerial bombardment, both of which had been outlawed under the 1907 Hague Convention"