Causes Of World War I

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Many things suck as militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism played roles in causing World War I. Countries desires to maintain a strong military was a large aspect of the Great War, along with this countries began making friendships aka alliances in the name of trade, political stability etc. During this time a large portion of the undeveloped world was still imperialized or in other words under foreign rule. In example England still owned several vast pieces of land in Africa along with India, Australia and Canada

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Another ideal that took strong hold of Europe in the 20th century was the idea of nationalism. This ideal made people want to be proud of the country that they lived in, they wanted to believe that their country was superior to every other one around them. This edged the countries closer and closer to war as they attempted to flex their muscles to show who was the strongest

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Newspaper Article

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