I am not going to write your essay, but would advise you to read up on the "Blank Cheque". Look at the gap between the shooting and the start of the war. Look at how war unites a country which is in trouble internally.
2006-11-22 01:07:10
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answer #1
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answered by damama2812 2
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World War I was caused by leaders' aggression towards other countries. Nationalism and imperialism were factors. World War I was caused in part by the two opposing alliances developed by Bismarckian diplomacy after the Franco-Prussian War. The menace of the hostile division after the collapse of the Bismarckian alliances led to an arms race, another cause of World War I. The friction of an armed and divided Europe escalated into several crises in Morocco and the Balkans which nearly ended in war in 1905. The Bosnian crisis of 1908 almost led to WWI, and war was averted only when Russia backed down, but relations between Austria- Hungary and Serbia were greatly strained. A second Moroccan crisis occurred in 1911 when Germany sent a warship to Agadir in protest of French supremacy in Morocco, claiming the French had violated the agreement at Algeciras. Europe had reached its breaking point when on June 28, 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, by a Serbian nationalist belonging to an organization known as the Black Hand. Unsatisfied, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia on July 28, 1914. On July 29, Russia ordered a partial mobilization only against Austria-Hungary in support of Serbia, which escalated into a general mobilization. The Germans threatened war on July 31 if the Russians did not demobilize. Upon being asked by Germany what it would do in the event of a Russo-German War, France responded that it would act in its own interests and mobilized. On August 1, Germany declared war on Russia, and two days later, on France. The German invasion of Belgium to attack France, which violated Belgium's official neutrality, prompted Britain to declare war on Germany. World War I had begun.
So, no, Germany was not solely responsible for WWI.
2006-11-22 09:25:25
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answered by Anonymous
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Wow, thanks for the offer, but NO.
I'll give you some bullet points, tho.
If the US hadn't aggressively sailed the Luisitania, the German Navy would not have been forced to sink it.
If the Brits had not challenged the (German) Kaiser re his justified landgrabs, British soldiers need not have died.
If the British had not weanted to hang out their washing on the maginot line (seroiusly - google it - it was as important as the siegfried line in WWII), then those belgian taxis would not have clogged the road, annoying the Germans less.
ArchDuke Franz Ferdinand got shot dleiberately to spark the whole mess.
Good luck!
2006-11-22 09:08:49
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answer #3
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answered by Minmi 6
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