... of warfare forever. As equal, the submarine changed navel warfare. The submarine went from "infancy to maturity" in a mere twenty years preceding and during World War I (Horton 68). The submarines test as a war machine would come during World War I. Although the submarine made its name for itself in WWI, the first successful recorded submarine in history was built in 1620. Cornelis ... followed the torpedo blast (10,13). The second explosion was a mixture of coal dust stirred into the air by the concussion of the torpedo and the oxygen in the air. A spark, probably from the boilers, ign...

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... and competitive attempt by western European to colonize Africa. The Moroccan crisis between France and Germany proved to be one "testing ground" for French allies Britain and Russia. While this "test" implemented by Germany never materialized into an actual battle, it was a telling and tense situation while it existed, and Germany was able to then gauge these powerful allies" abilities and ... 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, bu...

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... 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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