Causes Of WWI

World War 1 happened in 1914 and the reason this war begun because the countrys in europe wanted to be more powerfull then the rest they all wanted the most teritory so they could say that there country was the strongest the main two countrys in this war was england and germany.

Militarism means that countries in Europe during this time period would grow their armies and make them as big and as powerful as they could to look intimidating so no one would want to declare war with them so basically they tried to make everyone afraid of them and all the countrys in europe were like this so noone would get intimidated by any country.

Nationalism had some part in WWI but not as much as imperialism or militarism everyone in europe wanted more land for themselves so they would declare war with other counties frot here land some countrys got taken over and some didnt thats how it was during 1900's.


Franz Ferdinand was the arch duke of Austri-Hungry he wasnt very popular with the citizens because he would make big dramatic changes that the people didnt like.On the 28th of June 1914 he went to visit Sarajevo and was killed by a man in the Black Hand called Gavrilo Princip. Franz Ferdinand was shot int the neck and his wife, Sophie- who was pregnant at the time- shot in the stomach