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 …

…nationalism were only subordinate reasons for war while alliance and militarism were the obvious preparations for war. As the affect of alliance and militarism had pulled Britain in, Canada the country we live in had also join the war because of the relation with the British this had cause a major disturbance in Canada's economics, in addition to that it had set the horrifying picture to the world of why we should never have war.