The fact that a war was inevitable gave many political leaders the excuse to start World War I. The yearning from Austria, Germany, and Russia to solve their domestic disputes created a ripple that could have conceivably been solved by starting a war. Realizing the opportunities that a war presented, the leaders of these countries took to the reins of war. Without realizing it, the leaders quickly noticed the war was harder to control than they had initially perceived it to be. Many unspoken assumptions were acted upon when they should not have. Happenings that were assumed to happen, like Italy staying in the Triple Alliance, did not happen. Happenings that were assumed not to happen, like the quick mobilization of France and Russia, did happen and altered war plans significantly. Yet, it would not have been a war with such magnitude and impact if the alliances were not in place. Russia joined the war for reasons of domestic dispute and the alliance obligation to protect Serbia, and in effect France joined the war. Austria initiated the war because Arch Duke Ferdinand’s assassination and the opportunity to end pan Slavism was presented. Germany was obligated help Austria and create their “place in the sun”, and so they joined the war. Britain was in such contention with Germany and had been acting in unison with France that they entered the war. The conjunction of the alliance systems and the ray of hope to end domestic problems were what World War I a war that had never been seen before. The domestic problems that countries faced sparked the war. But without the alliances in place the tensions between countries would not have been so great and the war may not have been a world war. World War I was merely an opportunity to terminate the disputes faced within and the disputes that nations faced as they subjugated the world market.

In the years before World War I the European countries were facing a lot of pressure from their citizens. During these years many domestic affairs had risen, and they appeared to have no end and no solution. An example of this would be how the people of Germany felt that not only they needed to be the greatest country, but also they deserved to be greatest country. The people of Germany strove to have a “place in the sun” and the German government faced a lot of pressure from its citizens to accomplish this goal as well as the pressure that the Austrian government faced to rid the pan Slavism that burdened and aggravated the country to a great extent. Russia’s domestic troubles are the prominent of all. From the beginnings of the 1880s Russia was in a state of unrest and this state of unrest was never resolved; it only intensified, perhaps leading to the Russian’s strong involvement in the Sarajevo crisis and initiation

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