causas 1ww

1st World War causes

Armed peace

Conflicts between powers

UK vs France

1898 Fachoda crisis

France vs Germany

1871 Prussian-French war

Alsace and Lorraine

Moroccan crisis 1905-1911

Germany vs UK

Germany emerged as world power

Economic ambitions clashed with UK´s interests

Arm race and agressive foreign policy to increase colonial possesions

Balkan wars

Ottoman empire fragmentation

Serbia

Aspired to unify southern slavic people and create a Great Serbia

Russia

Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits to control the Mediterranean

Austro-Hungarian empire

1908 annexation of Bosnia-Hezergovina, wanted by Serbia

Militarism

Arms race

Great amounts of money were expent in arms

Military alliances

1882 Triple alliance

1907 Triple Entente

Propaganda

Nationalism

Outbreak

28 June 1914

Franz Ferdinand of Hasburg is assassinated in Sarajevo

By Gavrilo Princip, Yugoslav nacionalist