what started world war one?

Question

who started it

Answer 1

~Stupidity and greed. Just like all the others.

Answer 2

A comedy of errors. The death of Archbishop Franz Ferdinand by a Serb. When that happened, Austria declared war on Serbia, Russia declared war on Austria, Germany declared war on Russia and told the French to stay out of it. The French, like idiots, did not. When the French declared war on Germany, they obligated Great Britain to do the same. We did not go in until 1917 or 1918. If we had not, the war would have been a draw, there would have been no Versaille Treaty, and, therefore, no WWII

Answer 3

I agree.
The Prussians (Germany) and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were in a strong alliance with one another. The Empire was full of internal tensions, and when the Archduke was assassinated, the Empire threatened Serbia. Serbia was in an alliance with Russia. Russia in turn allied to France. So when the threats got thrown around, soon it was France and Russia against Germany and Austria. That's the nut shell.

Germany had some pretty aggressive territorial agendas on the fire. They were just waiting for an excuse to move militarily, the assassination of the Archduke was just an excuse, not really the cause.

Answer 4

There were a lot of territorial and other political tensions in Europe after the turn of the century, and many European nations had secret alliances with each other that were not known by other nations, so when the Archduke of Austria was assasinated in (serbia?) it sparked a domino effect of war and retaliation that was an excuse for nations like Germany to expand territory and try to conquer Europe.