... the Slavs of Bosnia, but the country was owned by Austria-Hungary at the time. Angered, Serbian nationalists assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, and lit the spark that set off World War I. From this point, alliances form on both sides, Germany on Austria's and Russia on Serbia's. With their powerful back up, the two quarreling countries declared ... first, we were still sending war supplies to the Allies, causing Germany to attack American ships that they believed to be carrying supplies. With the sinking of the Lusitania, President Wilson only threaten...

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... just one event, but a chain of events that started the war. So in the following paragraphs I will give a brief summary describing the events that led to the Great War. The spark of the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. He was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914. Ferdinand's death was at the ... the war, its colonies and dominions abroad variously offered military and financial assistance, and included Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and the Union of South Africa. United States President Woodrow Wilson declared a U.S...

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... as Germany. Other factors that caused tension between nations were Militarism, Imperialism and alliances between countries. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian student is widely known as the "spark" of World War I it caused a chain of events, leading to world war and it brought countries such as Germany and Britain in to the conflict. This also resulted in Germany ... invaded Belgium as part of the Schlieffen Plan. Britain then mobilised their forces in defence of Belgium, this conflict had now become a world war. It could be seen that this "spark" was the most im...

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... the first World War into "an end to all wars". The brutal and controversial termination of the war was the Versailles Treaty. In reality, the treaty contradicted many of Wilson's beliefs. The treaty also went against the intensely popular feelings of sympathy and paternalism that characterized goals for Germany. It soon became increasingly obvious that the Allies were seeking revenge ... ; Germany was destined to be crippled economically and socially by its enemies. President Wilson was adamantly against various aspects of the Treaty, much of which violated his idealistic Fourteen Points...

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... that both France and Great Britain shared in common was partly diminished by the presence of the United Stated in the conference. The president, Woodrow Wilson, was a sort of idealist who saw the post-world war as a way to build a new and more peaceful world. Even if he ... also, in less degree than France and Great Britain, wanted to punish Germany, Woodrow Wilson clearly saw the danger to punish it too harshly. The American president presented "Fourteen Points- that he thought that justified the military struggle of the war ... focus first on why did the conflict occurred, but also to...

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... the various treaties that the Great Powers signed in the 19th C. and early 20th C. The only agreement that was not achieved, the Anglo-German one, was still not enough to spark the war. An agreement would have been achieved if "the Germans had been prepared to abate their claims to naval hegemony and world power." Joll thus concludes that "imperialist policies ... , strategic planning and militarism, provide the best explanation as to what ignited WWI, whereas Lammers' model is a good counter balance for Mayer's domestic policy explanation and explains what did not spark the conflict. Th...

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... joined the fight against Germany and Austria-Hungary, to gain appreciation from the internationally powerful Allies. The growing power and competition between these large European states created a tinderbox continent - the spark appeared in 1914. The countries of Germany, Britain, France, Russia and Italy were perhaps the most powerful countries of the time - and as such were ever more greedy for increased ... world. The growing Diplomatic uneasiness is also showcased in the film, "Breaker Morant" - British soldiers were eager not to harm German citizens in fear of a potential backlash ...

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... joined the fight against Germany and Austria-Hungary, to gain appreciation from the internationally powerful Allies. The growing power and competition between these large European states created a tinderbox continent - the spark appeared in 1914. The countries of Germany, Britain, France, Russia and Italy were perhaps the most powerful countries of the time - and as such were ever more greedy for increased ... world. The growing Diplomatic uneasiness is also showcased in the film, "Breaker Morant" - British soldiers were eager not to harm German citizens in fear of a potential backlash ...

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... at the outbreak of the inevitable. Nations had the choice of being buried by themselves as they became saturated with domestic problems, or catalyzing the inevitable, start the war, and spark their only ray of hope "if only to buried in the process. When the Austria-Hungary dual monarchy was formed it was because Austria would not be able to ... Russian's strong involvement in the Sarajevo crisis and initiation of World War I. The increasing Russian peasant demands preoccupied the Russian government while populism, Marxism, and Bolshevism arose to try to spark a revolution. In 1912 the ...

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... War pg 2] Throughout the late C20th and the early C19th a wave of nationalism swept the continent of Europe, which would later cause much tension and eventually be where the final spark to war takes place. The actual term of nationalism refers to both the desire of people with the same culture, tradition and heritage to form their own independent nation (self ... ones, towards imperial control not only managed to drag two major powers (Russia and Austria-Hungary) as well as their major allies into heated conflict but also provided the final spark for war in the assassination of the Arch...

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... punish Germany at the harshest way possible to take revenge on what they did to them. Lloyd-George was a middleman between the harshness of Clemenceau and the new liberal ideas Wilson had, but Lloyd-George also wanted to achieve a balance between pleasing his country by punishing the Germans and trying to help the Germans reincorporate themselves into the international market to ... continue the trade with them. Finally Wilson wanted to impose his ideological new ideas into the horrible punishment the treaty already was, he believed that Germany shouldn't be punished to harsh and that e...

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... later, on France. The German invasion of Belgium to attack France, which violated Belgium's official neutrality, prompted Britain to declare war on Germany. World War I had begun. In 1918, Woodrow Wilson laid out his 14 points proposal for ending the war. In it he established the base of a peace treaty and the base of the League of Nations. In it he ... our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutuions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against selfish aggression." Wilson wanted the restoration of many parts of the world incl...

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... out of its pact with Germany and Austria, and with the help of the United States the Triple Entente defeated the Dual Alliance. The Germans agreed to surrender under President Wilson's 14 points to end the war. The terms Germany had to accept were the evacuation of occupied territories in Belgium, France, Russia, Romania and Serbia, and the return of Alsace ... an independent Polish state. The Fourteen Points also asked for the removal of barriers to international trade, and for absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas in peace and war. Wilson demanded "open covenants of peace openl...

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... other European countries, such as Franco-Prussian War, "Weltpolitik", imperialization of Morocco, 'Schlieffen Plan" which ignited militarism and the Naval Race of 1906-1912. Lastly another major spark that provided heat in starting the First World War: the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 by Serbian nationalist, which led Austria to declared war on Serbia. Therefore nationalism is ... ...

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... questions of blame or guilt. Historians continue to debate the causes of World War I nearly a century after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand; the event that most agree was the spark which ignited the flames of war. Reaching back to the years before Ferdinand's assassination, a case could be made that growing nationalism, militarism, and the development of an intricate system of ... ...

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... of all the above reasons, the existence of alliances was the biggest contributor to the actual outbreak of a large-scale war involving many countries. The assassination may have been the spark, but this resulted in Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia with Germany's full support. Russia opposed this move, due to it's Serbian alliance after the Bosnian Crisis, resulting in Germany ... ...

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... who assassinated Franz Ferdinand was responsible for the mayhem and despair that occupied the four years to follow in Europe, for had he not assassinated Ferdinand and provided the initial spark for conflict, the events from 1914 to 1918 may have been vastly different. Otto von Bismarck, leader of Germany during the unification period of the 1870's, some forty years before ... ...

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... else, however, he was a Habsburg: this meant he was dedicated to re-storing the authority of the emperor in the Empire and of re-establishing Catholicism in central Europe. The spark that set off the Thirty Years War came in 1618, when the Archbishop of Prague ordered a Protestant church destroyed. The Protestants in the city rose up and revolted, but within ... ...

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... a multitude of small, and unequipped provinces that had to support their own war efforts (Document 4: Sir George Downing). By the end of these wars, kings from other nations began to spark interest in taking over the remaining sea-trade routes that the Dutch once had, this motivation showed that the once prominent Republic was no longer existent (Document 7: Resolution of the ... ...

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... the world found itself in 1914. These factors all raised suspicion, resentment and anger between nations and caused the world to finally come to a World War. So, in 1914 the spark needed to start World War One happened. The Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated and the world finally started a war that would last not the six weeks everyone thought but a gruelling four ... ...

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... a degree that he can no longer return to his previous life. World War one (WWI) was officially brought to a halt when the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919. Woodrow Wilson (United States), Georges Clemenceau (France), David Lloyd George (Great Britain), and Vittorio Orlando (Italy), also known as the "Big Four," composed a treaty in Versailles which would hopefully bring ... ...

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... they gained power over Germany as she had to do what they said. In 1919 the peace treaty was drawn up by David Lloyd George (The British Prime Minister), Woodrow Wilson (The US president) and also Georges Clemenceau (The French Prime Minister). From the decisions made, Germany had lost everything She was asked to pay £6600 million for the damage ... ...

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... of independent nation states. Furthermore, liberal nationalism is not aggressive due to the belief that the achievement of national self determination is a way of establishing a peaceful and stable international order. Wilson believed that the first world war had been caused by an "old order," dominated by autocratic and militaristic empires. democratic nation states on the other hand, would respect the national ... ...

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... to govern a defeated Germany. The Social Democratic Party was the leading party in the creation of the Weimar Republic. It was the only party with sufficient credibility and acceptance by Wilson to negotiate an armistice agreement. Although it was designed to make the state a liberal parliamentary democracy in constitution, it was, however, not in the mainstream of German politics since it ... ...

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... May 1915. After the war, it was overshadowed by the greater powers, although it gained territory including Trieste, the Trentino and the south Tirol (Alto Adige) United States President Woodrow Wilson declared a U.S. policy of absolute neutrality, an official stance that would last until 1917 when Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare - which seriously threatened America's commercial shipping (which was in any ... ...

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