Sidney Bradshaw Fay, writer of The Origins of the World War came through not to long after the war with the reasons as to why the war started. His reasons where basically that no one power truly wanted war but that each one had their own contributing factors to the igniting of it.

With his fine points as to why exactly the war broke out into something bigger than expected, followed his weakness. Fay wrote his argument rather close in time of the War, which in return could make his information he based his argument off of questionable. Another weakness is his tendency to “point fingers”. Fay says that “None of the Powers wanted a European War”1, but he quickly makes you think

In the book Why Nations Go To War, John G. Stoeeinger speaks on the causes of World War I. He speaks on all aspects of the war, looking at the leader and other things that may have been a cause to the war. He strives to make everything clear so u can draw a concise line to what exactly happens. Stoessinger does not necessarily single out a particular power and find its faults. Instead Stoessinger goes through everything that happened which may or may not have led to the Great War. He proves that he has done his research and clearly displays this in his writing. He does not stop to focus on one particular power such as the previous did with Austria-Hungry and Germany. He does speak as the previous authors did that “The war that broke out July 28 was a localized conflict between Serbia and Austria-Hungary. The Austrians gambled that it would remain so”6. John S. did a good job in providing examples of what he was saying to make his argument more easy to follow along to.

In 1903 the British and France began to come together. They were friendlier and the historical friction was removed. Soon Germany began to become unhappy with France because they had Morocco and because of their relationship with Great Britain and began to feel like they was at advantage. Germany seeing, felt it was their opportunity to show what they can do to France. In the meantime Russia, France’s ally was preoccupied and could not come to help so Great Britain stepped up to help.

On June 28th, 1914 Austria’s Archduke was assassinated. Austria automatically blamed Serbia and gave them an ultimatum that must fully agree to within 48 hours and if they did not they would go to war. Serbia agreed to all but one rule igniting the war that Austria promised. With Germa

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