HIS242H1 Lecture 15: Origins of the WWI (HIS242)
Document Summary
Diplomatic crisis and the origins of the great war, The origins of wwi: the war was result of actions and decisions of world powers and therefore inevitable, mania (acronym) is used to describe each factor of the war, militarism. The late 19th century was a period of intense spending and expansion. Germany thought that it would be better to ght a war sooner or later because they had a military advantage at the time. Europeans stumbled into the war in 1914 because there was no war since the. However this idea was not well situated because there were wars before wwi and people created this idea after the war ended in 1917 to make up for the war??: alliance. The alliance system escalated a relatively minor con ict (assassination of archduke grand ferdinand) into a world war. 1879 dual alliance => germany + austria hungary. 1882 triple alliance => alliance is expanded to include italy.
