Unveiling The Causes and Consequences of World War I

A war erupted between countries from 1914 to 1918 which is known as World War 1 which was between major powers of Europe. During the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th-century countries were in nonstop conflict. Tensions between the major powers and Germany were quickly advancing and always on an edge of a hill. Some people believe that the cause of World War 1 was Militarism, Imperialism, nationalism or the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Some of us would believe that these are the main reasons for why World war 1 started.

The leading cause of world war 1 was the formation of alliances among countries because alliances were what made a domino effect because of the coalitions between major powers and their hostility against each other. The reason for the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was that there were secret alliances in Serbia which led to Austria-Hungary wanting to have a war on them. The Serbian government carried out this pan by an alliance with the organization group known as the Black Hand. It was known to be a secret military society formed in 1911 by officers of the Serbian military.

Through its connections to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, which was committed by the members of youth movement Young Bosnia, the Black Hand is viewed as having contributed to the start of World War I by triggering the July Crisis of 1914, which eventually led to Austria-Hungary's invasion of Serbia. The Serbian government had secret alliances that were connected to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand which caused tension between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. The tension between both countries became, even more, when Serbia had secret allies which made both countries to go to war.

Bigger alliances were formed as well such as the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente started off as the Franco Russian alliance between France and Russia in 1894 and later developed in 1907 including Great Britain in this alliance. The Triple Alliance was formed in 1882 and consisted of Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy. The secrecy of the Triple Entente relations built up tension until the war began in 1914 and by then, they were known as “Aggressive Weapons”. The Triple Alliance was a secret agreement as well however they all wanted different outcomes and necessities from the war.

The Triple Entente all had one common goal and it was to crush Germany. The reason why the Triple Entente started a domino effect was because had those two treaties not been there, then in 1914 there would have been a regional war amongst the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Serbia. The end result would be a new triple monarchy (Austria, Hungary, Serbia) instead of the dual monarchy (Austria, Hungary). If the Triple Entente treaty not been present, Russia wouldn’t have had an excuse to go to war with Austria; Germany wouldn’t have had an excuse to go to war with Russia or France, France would not have an excuse to go to war with Germany. Germany wouldn't have acted on the Shefflin Plan, Belgium wouldn't have been invaded, and Britain wouldn't have gone to war with Germany or Austria-Hungary. These two treaties were designed to prevent war, and they did for fifty years, but it was all under tension, and the right amount of pressure caused the entire thing to come crashing down.