World War

The First World War broke out in 1914. A widely held opinion is that the execution of Archduke Francis Ferdinand caused the war. This assassination occurred because of the nationalistic unrest in the Balkans. The Balkan states of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia, wanted to become one nation. Nonetheless, Bosnia-Herzegovina was legally Turkey’s, but dominated by Austria. (Palmer 700) However, just one assassination could not possibly lead to a full-fledged war involving most of the world. There were many other factors, which caused the war; most of these factors have been developing from the late nineteenth century. The nationalistic tensions in the Balkans led to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, but this event was only the spark, which ignited a world war whose true causes were imperialistic, militaristic, and alliance based tensions, which were developing throughout the major European nations.
After all of the revolutions in the middle nineteen...