PLEASE HELP in your opinion why did world war one break out in 1914?

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also can you explain what the shooting of archduke Franz Ferdinand (NOT THE SINGER!!) had to do with the 1st wrld war

i've missed a lot of history lessons and i cant find any answers on ask or google

please help!!

Answer 1

This war had been building for a long time, the shooting was just the straw on the camel's back. First, there was the arms race. Everyone was stocking up and everyone was worried about what everyone else had. Secondly, there was colonialism, England had many colonies in Africa and every other country was making a mad grab for power in Africa as well. Third, there were two many partnerships taking place between countries. Everyone wanted assurances that they wouldn't be attacked, but as soon as you made a pact with one country, you pissed off another one. Finally, there was the pig war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. The Austria-Hungary alliance wanted to keep the smaller Slavic nations under their rule. Serbia was upset about their lack of power and sovereignty. Austria-Hungary placed high trade taxes on all Serbia's exports, in an effort to keep the country poor. Serbia started trading their pigs to Germany and was growing stronger. All three sides were unhappy with each other. When the Arch duke vacationed in Serbia, he was shot. Because of the previously mentioned alliances, the countries who were allied with Serbia and Austria automatically had to enter the war as their treaties bound them to do so.

Answer 2

you are not looking hard enough. Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, were assassinated in Sarajevo by an anarchist. At the time, the flailing remnants of the Hapsburg Empire was looking for an excuse to invade the Balkans. Serbia was allied with the Russians,( the U.K. and France were also allied with the Russians) the Hapsburgs were allied with the Germans. General Mobilisation was called for in Austria, this caused the Russians to do the same. The Austrians and their allies saw this as an act of Aggression, to cut a long story really short, the Imperialist tribes lined up against one another, no one would back down, and during the month of August 1914 the world was plunged into a conflict that changed it forever. Four major Empires were to fall, The Hapsburgs, The Russians, The Ottoman (the Turks), and the German. The Kaiser in Germany would be forced to abdicate, the Tsar in Russia would be murdered by the Bolsheviks, and Kemal Ataturk would construct a new and democratic Turkey, Austria would fall under German Influence, and be dragged into the second world war as a power base for Hitler.

There's lots more, read August 1914 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, read Europe by Norman Davis.

Answer 3

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, duchess of Hohenburg, were assassinated in Sarajevo, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.



The conspiracy involved Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student. Gavrilo Princip was part of a group of fifteen assailants, who formed the Young Bosnia group, acting with support from the Black Hand, some members of which were part of the Serbian government.



Following the assassination, the Austro-Hungarian government, supported by their German allies, determined to punish the Serbians for the assassination, and on July 23 sent an ultimatum to the Serbs with demands so extreme that it was expected to be rejected.



The Serbians, relying on the hope of support from Russia, gave an equivocal response which led to Austrian rejection, and to a declaration of war on July 28.



The Russians mobilized in support of their Serbian allies. First, this was only partial mobilization, directed against only the Austrian frontier.



On July 31, after the Russian high command told the emperor that this was logistically impossible, a general mobilization was ordered. The German war plan, which relied on a quick strike against the Russians' French allies while the Russian army slowly mobilized, could not afford to allow the Russians to begin mobilization without launching their attack on the west.



As such, the Germans declared war against Russia on August 1 and against France two days later, immediately launching an invasion of Luxembourg and Belgium to get around the fortifications along the Franco-German border. This violation of Belgium's neutrality led to a British declaration of war on Germany on August 4.



With this declaration, five of the six great European powers became involved in the first European general war since the Napoleonic Wars.



Although World War I was triggered by this chain of events unleashed by the assassination, the war's origins go deeper, involving national politics, cultures, economics, and a complex web of alliances and counterbalances that developed between the various European powers over the course of the nineteenth century, following the final 1815 defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte and the ensuing Congress of Vienna.

Answer 4

The murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife took place in Sarajevo, in the area of what is now Serbia-Bosnia. This was considered a direct political attack on Austria-Hungary. Austria-Hungary maintained diplomatic relations with Germany and maintained a "protectorate" status with Germany. On the other hand, the Bosnian-Serbian area where the murder took place, maintained diplomatic protectorate relations with Russia. As hostilities began to escalate over the assassination, the rulers of the larger, more powerful countries began to assert their political demands over each other. The Hohenzollern Dynasty of Germany, led by Kaiser Wilhelm, demanded restitution for the Hapsburg Dynasty of Austria-Hungary by the submission of Serbia-Bosnia. The Romanoff Dynasty of Russia, led by Czar Nicholas II, was duty-bound to protect Serbia-Bosnia, and would not back down when threatened by the German Kaiser. Germany then declared war on Russia; and Russia, in turn declared war on Germany, and what began as a squabble between royal families escalated into becoming the Great War, as other countries and their royal relations soon took sides. Great Britain was opposed to Germany's tactics, and Kaiser Wilhelm declared war upon the British government. As the war intensified, other European countries were brought into the melee; and finally, the United States of America entered the war, after many American lives were lost aboard the British steamship Lusitania, which was sunk by a German U-boat. When it was all over by 1918, the Hapsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanoff Dynasties that touched off the war had all collapsed.

Answer 5

A) About world war I



(1) World War I is a military conflict which was from 1914 to 1918.

(2) It began as a local European war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia on July 28, 1914.

(3) It was transformed into a general European struggle by Germany's declaration of war against Russia on August 1, 1914; and eventually became a global war involving 32 nations.

(4) Twenty-eight of these nations, known as the Allies and the Associated Powers, and including Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States, opposed the coalition known as the Central Powers, consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria

(5) Main causes of World War I were the spirit of intense nationalism that permeated Europe throughout the 19th and into the 20th century, the political and economic rivalry among the nations, and the establishment and maintenance in Europe after 1871 of large armaments and of two hostile military alliances.



B) About Frans Ferdinand



(1) Francis Ferdinand (German, Franz Ferdinand), (1863-1914), Archduke of Austria, born in Graz, son of Archduke Charles Louis and nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph I.

(2) In 1875 he inherited the title archduke of Austria-Este. After the deaths of his cousin Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889, and of his father in 1896, Francis became heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown. Because of his morganatic marriage in 1900 to Countess Sophie Chotek, Duchess of Hohenberg, Francis relinquished all claim to the throne for his children.

(3) Although he was favourably inclined towards the aspirations of the Slavs, he and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina), on June 28, 1914, by a Serb nationalist. The incident precipitated World War I.

Answer 6

Ferdinand was shot by a member of "Narodna Odbrana" a Croatian terrorist organization. The assination was blamed not on the nationalists but on Serbia. (supposedly the conspiracy was on their shoulder's)



Germany, who had been litterally clamouring for war since the writing of the Bismarkian Treaties known as "The Three Emporer's League", pressured their allies: Austria-Hungry to declare war on Serbia.



Serbia countered with an alliance with Croatia, who had an alliance which had mutual defensive arrangement with Russia, France, and Great Brittian called the "Russo-Franc Entante", plunging Germany and their allies: Italy into the forray.

Answer 7

Dude, Hitler and Mussolini had nothing to do with the breakout of WWI, so just be careful.



I would point to the European system of Alliances breaking down. Bismarck, the master Prussian diplomat, had been out of action politically for nearly 20 years when WWI broke out. Basically, he devised many parts of the system, it's checks and balances, but without him to keep things stable, war was bound to break out.



Also think about Germany's growing strength as an industrial power to rival the British empire. Both had huge armies, and war as an outlet for trade tensions is a possible secondary explanation.



An interesting point to bring up is that there was hardly any land available to be given up as part of diplomatic negotiations. All the European territory was owned by one country or another, the land in Africa, China and the rest of Asia was pretty much carved up, and there was no land left to be traded in the Americas. So, in a sense, the only route left for countries who wanted to expand their power base, according to the imperialist political mindset at the time, was to invade other countries.



Franz Ferdinand's assassination is interesting, it's the microcosmic point of the war starting. If I remember correctly, he was the Grand Duke of Austria-Hungary, and he was killed by anarchists from the Balkan countries. Austria declared war on, was it Serbia? I forget... anyway, Russia said that they would support that country, Germany supported Austria, France supported Russia. I think Italy went with Germany, but I could be wrong there. Great Britain was virtually the last country to decide- if they'd pulled out, then it's possible that the war would have either not happened, or been a lot smaller scale if it did happen- but, GB decided to support France later on the negotiations, and that was that. Four years of carnage for Europe. You could argue that the strength of the British Empire was in decline by 1914, and they wanted to beat down their closest rival, Germany.



There had been an earlier incident- I think it was 1911, a German gunboat, the Leopard, sailed unnanounced into a Spanish harbour, and everyone thought that might start a war, though nothing came of it. The point is that the alliance system that had kept peace in Europe since 1870 was out of date, the business world was growing faster than anyone had seen it grow before, European empires were crying out for space to grow; with no master diplomat like Bismarck to renew it, war was an inevitability. Franz Ferdinand's assassination just happened to be the event over which everyone decided to fight. If he hadn't been killed, probably something else would have come along? Perhaps a socialist revolution in Russia would have done the trick?



Incidentally, Japan was a British ally at the time, and they had a great time, taking over former German colonies in Asia and otherwise producing lots of industrial goods whilst Europe was busy. They came out of WWI in a good position, though this was not reflected in the treaty of Versailles. In fact, I think the Japanese were still fighting the Russians well into 1925, I think it was in an effort to restore the Tsarist system- or possibly, just so that they could win extra territory, like that lovely island of Sakhalin above Hokkaido. Mmm, nice!



So, Britain and Germany had a war to see who was the strongest. Who won? The USA. Same goes for WWII.



I hope this stuff helps you out, but man, try to make it to those history lessons in future... unless you're sick, you should go.

Answer 8

Quick answer: prior to WWI, Europe was nation-building and everyone was getting nervous about their neighbors. Various countries had agreements with each other promising to help out if the other was attacked. When the archduke was assassinated, it set everything in motion as countries lined up to go to war in support of their allies.

Answer 9

beware entangling alliances.



the principal world powers at the time had all aligned themselves in a series of mutual support alliances, which created a situation wherein any small conflict would be guaranteed to escalate into a large one as all the various alliance members on both sides declared war in support of their allies.



the spark was the shooting of Franz Ferdinand.

Answer 10

Gavrilo Princip, the shooter, was a Serb nationalist. When Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, the British and French declared war on Austria-Hungary, Germany declared war on Britain and France and it all mushroomed from there. Like almost all wars, it was about economic power and ridiculous ethnic rivalries.

Answer 11

Franz Ferdinand was from a neutral country. His assassination was uncalled for and "the straw that broke the camel's back". Big problem that caused WWI? Hitler and Mussolini.

Answer 12

It started because someone "took out" Franz Ferdinand (Get it?).

Answer 13

World War One broke out because of tyrants such as Hitler and Mussolini's communistic and socialistic government standpoint.

Answer 14

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Answer 15

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Answer 16

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