World War I

During the late 1800's throughout the early 1900's there were still empires that were formed. Many of the people that were being taken over were very unhappy with that and wanted there own country. The people thought that in one empire they spoke over three different languages, then why would they even be a united country. One major reason why World War I happened was because of Nationalism. Countries spent millions of dollars to help prepare their military. They were trying to prepare themselves to have a very powerfully military. There was one problem about all of this and that was that they didn't have anywhere to use it. This made them start tension and conflict within each other. Militarism was a really important factor in starting the war. What triggered the war though was when the archduke of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian, Austria declared war on Serbia which then cause Russia to join the war on Serbia's side. This was the collapse of the alliance system. This war caused the people of all the nations they belonged to felt pride in the fact that their country was the dominate one.