... War One. Every tension can be attributed to one of four causes, nationalism, system of military alliances, military build up and colonial competition. If these tensions were gunpowder then the spark that ignited them was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in June 1914. The assassination gave Austria-Hungary the ideal excuse to stop Serbian ambitions once and for all. The tensions ... being allied with Russia, Britain found the Entente Cordiale's natural compliment to be a second Entente with Russia. With the finalization of this Entente in 1907 Germans felt increasingly isolated. To t...

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