Pride and strong feeling in one's nation was widespread at the beginning of the 20th century. Nationalist's believed that the needs of other nations were not as important as their own. Nationalist's were aggressive and were stubborn to forgive other nations when the felt their nation had been offended, this added tension among the nations of Europe.

Another long term cause was Imperialism. Imperialism was when a nation wanted to take over colonies and build an empire. The European nations had been taking over colonies since the 15th century and from 1870 there was fierce competition over which countires took over colonies over the world. Britain, Germany and France almost went to war over disagreements in North Africa. . Italy felt amnimosity towards France because they prevented Italy from setting up colonies. Many other countries went to war or almost came close to w

An unintended long sequence of event cause World War 1 to break out. Long Term Factors brought about a war environment and hostility, a series of crises hightened tension and the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand was the breaking point that started the countdown to war.

Militarism was the belief that one's country should be well armed and military ways could be used to gain nationalist needs. Militarists was an influential force throughout Europe. The Great Powers competed to build up their armed forces and supplies of weapons, thus this added to the escelating tension, fear and anger between the countries.

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