HI410 Lecture 5: Chapter-21-Section-1-Study-Guide
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12/2/2008: better weapons, barbed wire, gas flame throwers, tanks, grenades, high explosives, airplanes, zeppelins. Reasons for world war i - know how to explain how each one of these contributed to world war i: nationalism. Pride in your country, desire to have your own country. People in bosnia wanted to be with like people, the slavs in serbia. People wanted more land, for their empires to grow: militarism. Everyone was building up their forces, they were in an arms race. As your enemy got more of something, you had to get even more. Eventually, you"ll have to actually use these men and weapons. It was not the assassination of the archduke, because war would have happened sooner or later. That was just the spark that would have set it off. Hungary, and declares war on serbia and russia. France then comes in and helps russia, and declares war on ah and germany.