Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Causes of World War 1
- Formation of Opposing Alliences
- Triple Auntante
- Britain
- Britain had no possessions in Europe until WW1
- It had an empire around the world with possessions on every continent
- the empire was protected by the British Navy, the strongest navel force at the time
- the Navy also heavily the protected the Merchant Navy, a vital supply system
- one of the reasons why Britain went to war with Germany was that Germany was developing its Navey
- up till 1914 Britain had chosen to stay very isolated from Europe
- however she always would seek to control the Seas around Europe
- France
- France had a large Empire in Africa
- Britain and France never usually clashed
- Russia
- Russian territory was made mostly up of Asia and Alaska
- Triple Alliance
- Germany
- Germany had a small empire but only in Africa
- Austria
- Turkey
- Turkey had an empire mainly in the middle-east
- Other partially important countries
- Portugal
- had an empire which now mostly South America
- these alliances where dangerous as it meant that if one country went to war with another, all the countries in the alliance have to declair war also
- Assassination of Austrian Archduke, Franz Ferdinand
- his death was the "spark" for war