HS 111 Lecture 1: Wars
3 Oct 2016
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Long term causes: militarism: the belief of a nation or its people to build, glorify and maintain a strong military, with the intention to use it whenever it is felt necessary (arms race) Example: the growing european divide had led to an arms race between the main countries. The dual alliance: germany and austria hungary against. The triple alliance: germany, a. h, and italy against. The franco-russian alliance: france and russia against. Imperialism: when a country takes over new lands or countries and makes them subject to their rule. Example: with the growth of pan-slavism, or the unification of all. Slavic peoples, protected by russia, the areas around serbia became very unstable. The serbians were prepared to create their own independent slavic state supported by the russians. Short term causes: the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand. Archduke franz ferdinand was assassinated in sarajevo, bosnia on june 28, 1914 by gavrilo princip.
