What were the reasons that World War 1 even started?

Question: What were the reasons that World War 1 even started!?

Sopposedly there are five!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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There's an acronym!.!.!.it's MAIN!. Each of these letters start for something that had a major impact for World War 1 to occur:

M: Militarism!. When nations started mobilizing their troops for protection, and to avoid problems, it posed a threat for other nations!. This caused other nations to mobilize as well!.

A: Alliances!. When nations agreed to "watch each other's backs" the fight became between many nations, instead of just two!. It was called a WORLD WAR, because of the system of alliances!.

I: Imperialism!. When more dominant nations started taking over other weaker nations, the weaker nations didnt like it, so they tried fighting back!. But also, there started to be a fight over who would take another's land, and that lead to direct conflicts as well!.

N: Nationalism!. The love and respect for one's conuntry also had a major impact on the reason why World War 1 started!. When every nation wanted to impose their beliefs and system(s) into other nations!.!.!.it also lead to conflicts!.

The blow-up for World War 1 to actually start, was the assisnation of Archduke Francis Ferdinand!. When he came into power, and then was assissinated by a member of the Black Hand; a terrorist group (his name was Gavrilo Princip), the whole nation was blamed for it!.!.!.so it started the whole conflict of a world war!.

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Long term causes
Remember MAIN, an acronym!. These are the long term causes!.

M - Militarism - As European countries get stronger, they build large and strong army!.

A - Alliances - Too many strong countries next to each other is very danger!. So they formed Alliances to protect each other!.

I - Imperialism - Imperiling African countries is gonna bring the beef to each other!.

N - Nationalism - Basically, be proud of your country and support it!. In other words, join the army!. This brings to Militarism!.

Immediate cause

Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferderland!.
Which can also be added into main!. These are the 5 reasons you think there was and you're right!.

Acronym for all these causes = MANIAWww@QuestionHome@Com

Five years before WW1 began, Walter Rathenau wrote that Europe was controlled by a self-perpetuating body of three hundred men who knew each other!. These men included the Rothschilds and their banking dynasty!. If they had wanted to, they could have prevented the war, whether Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated or not!. It may be, however, that the war gave them exactly what they wanted, namely, a lot of dead white gentiles and an increased endebtedness of goyish nations to Jewish banks!.

You might recall, also, that Benjamin Disraeli (Queen Victoria's prime minister) was a Jew who claimed that his fellow Jews were the real source of political power behind the visible governments of Europe!.

"So!.!.!. one has to wonder whether, offstage, behind the statesmen who stood in the limelight, there were not other men, perhaps of Jewish race, who, for purposes of their own, worked up and worked upon old international jealousies, fears, and antagonisms; slipped ideas into the minds of figurehead statesmen; and at critical moments were at their elbows to bait and to bribe, to threaten and to coerce!."
(Source: William G!. Simpson, Which Way Western Man, Ch!. 19!.)

One of those encysted Jews was Max Nordau, a financier in Germany, who is most famous for making the following remark in 1903 to a group of Jews in Paris:

"Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: [Theodor] Herzl [the father of modern Zionism], the [First] Zionist Congress [1897], the English Uganda proposition, THE FUTURE WORLD WAR, the peace conference where, with the help of England, a free and Jewish Palestine will be created!."
(Source: American Jewish News for 19 September 1919!. The capitalization emphasis and the additions in brackets are mine!.)

Alfred Moritz Mond, alias "Baron Melchett," was a Jew living in England!. After WW1, he traveled to New York, where he addressed this remark to a group of Zionists!.

"Let me take you back to 1913!. If I had stood here in 1913 and said to you, 'Come to a conference to discuss the reconstruction of a national home in Palestine,' you would have looked at me as an idle dreamer; even if I had told you in 1913 that the Austrian Archduke would be killed and that out of all that followed come the chance, the opportunity, the occasion for establishing a national home for Jews in Palestine!. Has it ever occurred to you how remarkable it is that out of the welter of world blood there has arisen this opportunity!? Do you really believe that this is an accident!? Do you really in your hearts believe that we have been led back to Israel by nothing but a fluke!? Do you believe there is no greater inner meaning in the opportunity we have been given!? After two thousand years of wandering in the wilderness we have a chance and an opportunity bestowed upon us, and many sit back and say it is of no interest to us!. I wonder if they have thought of that train of circumstances!."
(Source: The Jewish Chronicle, 9 November 1928, page 19!.)

The American industrialist Henry Ford related an experience he had while traveling aboard a ship!. He met a Jewish man who knew something of why WW1 was being fought and told Ford that the Jews had started it, and that the war would continue until the Jews decided it should end!.

Europe was a powder keg of resentments in the early years of the 20th century, only waiting for a spark to set it off!. It just so happened that the spark was the assassination of Ferdinand!. However, if that had not occurred, the war would only have been triggered by something else!.

The resentments in Europe, of each country toward several others, can be traced once again to a curious property of Jewish finance, namely, that it established a currency, created out of nothing, and loaned at interest from Jewish banks!. The bankers thus receive, without doing any work, a huge income (with which to make trouble) at the expense of the people whose country has given legal acceptance to that currency!.

The whole aim of the First World War, by those who set up the conditions under which it had to occur, was to gain Palestine as the national homeland of the Jews!. That is, WW1 was the result of a Zionist conspiracy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Nationalism:
At the settlement of the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the principle of nationalism was ignored in favor of preserving the peace!. Germany and Italy were left as divided states, but strong nationalist movements and revolutions led to the unification of Italy in 1861 and that of Germany in 1871!.

Imperialism :
Another factor which contributed to the increase in rivalry in Europe was imperialism!. Great Britain, Germany and France needed foreign markets after the increase in manufacturing caused by the Industrial Revolution!. These countries competed for economic expansion in Africa!. Although Britain and France resolved their differences in Africa, several crises foreshadowing the war involved the clash of Germany against Britain and France in North Africa!. In the Middle East, the crumbling Ottoman Empire was alluring to Austria-Hungary, the Balkans and Russia!.

Bismarck and Alliances :
World War I was caused in part by the two opposing alliances developed by Bismarckian diplomacy after the Franco-Prussian War!. In order to diplomatically isolate France, Bismarck formed the Three Emperor's League in 1872, an alliance between Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary!. When the French occupied Tunisia, Bismarck took advantage of Italian resentment towards France and created the Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Austria- Hungary in 1882!. In exchange for Italy's agreement to stay neutral if war broke out between Austria-Hungary and Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary would protect Italy from France!. Russia and Austria-Hungary grew suspicious of each other over conflicts in the Balkans in 1887, but Bismarck repaired the damage to his alliances with a Reinsurance Treaty with Russia, allowing both powers to stay neutral if the other was at war!.

Collapse of Bismarckian Alliances :
However, after Bismarck was fired by Kaiser William II in 1890, the traditional dislike of Slavs kept Bismarck's successors from renewing the understanding with Russia!. France took advantage of this opportunity to get an ally, and the Franco- Russian Entente was formed in 1891, which became a formal alliance in 1894!. The Kruger telegram William II sent to congratulate the leader of the Boers for defeating the British in 1896, his instructions to the German soldiers to behave like Huns in China during the Boxer Rebellion, and particularly the large- scale navy he was building all contributed to British distrust of Germany!.

As a result, Britain and France overlooked all major imperialistic conflict between them and formed the Entente Cordiale in 1904!. Russia formed an Entente with Britain in 1907 after they had reached an understanding with Britain's ally Japan and William II had further alienated Russia by supporting Austrian ambitions in the Balkans!. The Triple Entente, an informal coalition between Great Britain, France and Russia, now countered the Triple Alliance!. International tension was greatly increased by the division of Europe into two armed camps!.

Arms Race :
The menace of the hostile division led to an arms race, another cause of World War I!. Armies and navies were greatly expanded!. The standing armies of France and Germany doubled in size between 1870 and 1914!. Naval expansion was also extremely competitive, particularly between Germany and Great Britain!.

Crises in Africa:
The friction of an armed and divided Europe escalated into several crises in Morocco and the Balkans which nearly ended in war!. In 1905, Germany announced its support of independence for Morocco, the African colony which Britain had given France in 1904!. The British defended the French, and war was avoided by a international conference in Algeciras in 1906 which allowed France to make Morocco a French protectorate!.

Bosnian Crisis of 1908:
Another conflict was incited by the Austria-Hungarian annexation of the former Turkish province of Bosnia in 1908!. The Greater Serbian movement had as an object the acquisition of Slavic Bosnia, so Serbia threatened war on Austria-Hungary!. Russia had pledged their support to Serbia, so they began to mobilize, which caused Germany, allied with Austria-Hungary, to threaten war on Russia!. The beginning of World War I was postponed when Russia backed down, but relations between Austria- Hungary and Serbia were greatly strained!.

Assassination in Sarajevo:
Europe had reached its breaking point when on June 28, 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, by a Serbian nationalist belonging to an organization known as the Black Hand (Narodna Obrana)!. Immediately following the assassination Germany pledged its full support (blank check) to Austria-Hungary, pressuring them to declare war on Serbia, while France strengthened its backing of Russia!. Convinced that the Serbian government had conspired against them, Austria-Hungary issued Serbia an unacceptable ultimatum, to which Serbia consented almost entirely!.

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Long term reason can be put into M!.A!.I!.N!.
Militarism- country's were building military for no reason
Alliance- Country's were getting allies way before started( builds up tension)
Imperialism- Country's were angry at one another at other parts of the world for taking supposedly "their" country
Nationalism- People were proud of their country and were willing to fight to prove it!.
Last came the short term Spark that started the war!. The arch duke of Austria- Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo by the Serbian gang( i think there called Black hand or something like that) Austria declared war on Serbia Russia declared War on Austria and everyone else started fighting!.Www@QuestionHome@Com