... nationalistic and created just as many tensions with it 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 ... 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 important cause of the war as it...

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... of nationalist government. It is commonly believed that it was the assassination of Prince Ferdinand of Austria, a direct byproduct of Serbian nationalism. "Serbians seeking to gain territory at Austria-Hungary's expense, and members of a secret society collaborated together to kill the Austrian heir to the throne. This was the spark plug, nationalism, for the war."(Wikipedia) If not for nationalism this kind of ... action would not have been taken, and if it had been the alliance system instead, it would not have caused World War One. It pushed people toward ... national unity in Italy...

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... able to gain a great deal of power and wanted to unite all Slavs in the area. They wished to gain 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, ... the attacks resumed and the US discovered the Zimmerman Note, in which Mexico was promised the support of reclaiming the American Southwest if the supported the Germans. Infuriated, the US declared war on Germany, added to ...

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... into a conflict to start the fire. If a person is asked who started the first World War, one will say Germany because Germany had to agree to sign the treaty. However, the spark that started the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary. This was the spark that started the war, but Germany had to take all the blame. Lastly, the treaty and all the terrible things that happened to ... Germany led to W.W.2. Although the President of America's goal was to make the treaty to end the war and avoid revenge from the other countries, that ... ...

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... eventually a war would break out provided the ample opportunity for the nations leadership to try to divert attention from the problems that they faced. The one chance for success seemed to materialize 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 ... never resolved; it only intensified, perhaps leading to the Russian's strong involvement in the Sarajevo crisis and initiation of World War I. The increasing Russian pe...

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... had to recognize that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs . The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces."" That quote in and of itself is a direct spark to motivate a movie watcher. Being in the German Army, Paul along with his lifelong school friends would embark on a journey ... with so many unexpected events to change their lives. Deaths, injuries, social conflicts and the German culture are bases ... for the script, and could easily be inserted and edited for drama effect ... ...

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Britain was not the only country expecting war, for each European country involved had made plans. Many people had been expecting this war for sometime, waiting for a spark to set it all off. Now this trigger finally came on June 1914, where the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne in Austria, was assassinated. This set off a chain reaction around all the countries in Europe. Now ... during the years, Austria had quarrels with Serbia, which had become more explosive. Therefore ... there are some, which were less likely than others. In this paragraph, an explanation is going to be mad...

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... States [all more difficult to maintain neutrality.] Despite Bryan's message, by 1917 American banks loaned $2.3 billion dollars to the Allies and only $27 million to the Central Powers. Politically, the United States "entered" the war because of unrestricted submarine warfare from Germany that affected exports to Britain. In January 1917, President Wilson stated in his war ... 1916, Germany broke its promise and torpedoed the Sussex (not sinking), a French passenger steamer killing 80 passengers, including Americans. Socially, the United States "entered" the war in response to the inter...

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... Archduke Franz Ferdinand the heir of Austria-Hungary took place in 28th June 1914 while he was visiting Bosnia, which is a Slav state. To my opinion the assassination was not the reason for the break out of the war, there are many other main factors, this is only the spark factor. I think the main cause of the war is rivalry, there were rivalries between Austria and Russia. Austria had ... control to the black sea which Russia wanted to access to, Austria-Hungarian Empire included ... areas of the Balkans which Russia felt should be controlled by them. On the other side, there were riv...

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... this successfully varied greatly. However, nothing could have spelled the downward spiral of the political tension of the time to a full-blown war like the alliances between the countries comprising Europe. I believe 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, resulti...

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... as World War 1 was one of the bloodiest wars in history that killed millions of people and happened for many reasons, some of the reasons haven't even been found. The spark that triggered the war was the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife Sophie on June 24, 1914 by the hands of Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand in Serbia (Background Essay), ... but that wasn't one of the deeper causes of WWI. There were four underlying ... causes of WWI; the Alliance System, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Militarism. Out of the four, I think the most ... ...

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... a motorcade through Sarajevo, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated by a Serbian Black Hand Nationalist.( Goff, R) The Archduke had ignored warnings of a possible assassination plot and decided to go anyway.( Strokes bury, J.L) The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was known as the lethal spark that ignited World War I. Bosnia and Herzegovina were provinces just south of Austria, which had, until 1878, been ... governed by the Turks. (Gilbert, M.) The Treaty of Berlin, in 1878, settled the situation of lands lost by the Turks following their devastating ...

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... process of eliminating its Armenian population by a mass genocide or "ethnic cleansing." At the time, the first World War was already occurring, which turned out to be the original spark that would cause the carnage to flare. Thomas de Waal states in his article The G-Word that "the Ottoman Empire began a brutal campaign of deporting and destroying its ethnic Armenian community, whom it accused ... of supporting Russia, a World War I enemy. More than a million Armenians died." (Waal, The G-Word). He goes on to talk ... it could damage U.S. relations with Turkey, an important ally." (Sim...

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... as watching your best friends die and people. All of these countries were hoping to have gained something from this war. However, the end of the war brought many consequences to Europe. Although many countries and its citizens were hoping that war had good meaning, such as nationalism, ... devotion of a nation and its interests, often associated with a belief that one country is superior to all others (Evidence Round II). Another is the desire to achieve political independence, especially by a country under foreign control or by a people with a separate identity and culture but no state o...

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... just one thing that caused the war there were many. Tensions were building all over Europe prior to the outbreak of World 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 before World War One can be largely attributed to the rise of nationalism thro...

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... destroyed any confidence that still remained between the government and the people." By early March, 1917, fresh supplies of grain, coal, wood and oil in the major cities were non-existent, the people had lost all faith in the autocracy and widespread discontent throughout society had reached an all-time low. The spark that would ignite the revolution came on the 7th of March when over 25,000 Petrograd ... workers were locked out of their jobs at the Pulitov steelworks. The following day over 90,000 workers went ... on strike in support of the Pulitov workers and took to the streets wi...

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... no attempts were made to require the postwar Turkish government to pay reparations for the devastation it inflicted on the Armenian people and their culture.23 Controversy still surrounds the Armenian Genocide throughout the world. World powers such as the United States and France, out of fear that it may spark some sort of backlash, will not use the word genocide to describe what happened ... to the Armenian Christians in World War I. The Turkish completely denied ... all accusations concerning the genocide until 2002 when they experienced a ... ...

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... including, ironically, Italy, also 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 ... eager to try out their new weaponry, yet unaware of its potential impact across the world. The growing Diplomatic uneasiness is also showcased in the film, "Breaker Morant...

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... including, ironically, Italy, also 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 ... eager to try out their new weaponry, yet unaware of its potential impact across the world. The growing Diplomatic uneasiness is also showcased in the film, "Breaker Morant...

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... nations felt they had to do the same. Thus enhancing the power of industrial development and so forth. The competition for colonies was another source of national power and strength. The great powers of Europe sectioned off Africa among them establishing a solid influence in China. Sooner or later this rush to stamp authority of new land was bound to spark disagreements over boundaries of control ... and Italy decided they wanted a colonial empire too. These general causes created an atmosphere in Europe, which made war more and more evident. The spark, which ignited the flame and trans...

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... returning from an excursion off the southern coast of Ireland when the captain, Walter Schweiger, spotted the Lusitania. He fired his last torpedo at her, hitting just forward of the stacks. A much larger explosion 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, ignited this volatile mix ... (195). Eighteen minutes later the luxury liner was gone leaving 1,195 people dead, among them 123 ... ...

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... Powers were able to expand while preserving peace. Joll thus mentions all 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 ... for Mayer's domestic policy explanation and explains what did not spark the conflict. The influence of domestic problems upon foreign policy, such a the Russian social turmoil, the Ulster proble...

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... to war. [Ross Steward, Causes and consequences of the First World 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 determination) and the belief that one's culture or race is superior to another. Normal nationalism is fine, however when it gets ... to drag two major powers (...

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... on an aggressive foreign policy in hopes of uniting Germany. He modernized the Prussian armies by giving them the newest weapons. In 1864, he made a temporary alliance with Austria against Denmark and the territories of Schleswig and Holstein. After defeating the Danes, Austria got Holstein while Bismarck got Schleswig.. This system helped spark a war with Austria. In 1866, after securing an alliance with Italy ... and France(proving that the enemy of my enemy is my friend), Bismarck attacked Austria and defeated her in 8 ... weeks. Instead of ruling Austria with an iron fist, Bismarck...

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... resistance, two god as a creator and not as a religion, and three, the return of India to its roots. His actions of passive resistance presented a great force upon the British. Although hard to control at times, the idea eventually worked in the end. Gandhi practiced protesting, fasting, and the boycotting of British goods. To accomplish the last he made his own clothes that were simple and made ... from hand-woven wool. The spinning wheel was one of the symbols used in his fight for India. Gandhi gave new life to the old idea of nationalism indeed. He helped to spark the fire that once...

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