Germay and WW1 and The Odyssey

Was Germany to blame for World War One?


Though Germany turned out to be the Central Power and most involved in the war, there is little or no evidence that the Germans had planned for war. There are several fundamental causes that had brought the world to the brink of war: nationalism, imperialist competition, militarism, and the build up of pre-war alliances. The growing appearance of these factors perhaps inevitably led to what was called the Great War, World War One.

Germany had a variety of reasons for being willing to be involved in World War One. The assassination of Austrian archduke Frances Ferdinand and his wife on June 28th 1914 by a Serbian student named Gavrilo Princep, who was part of the militant group called the "Black Hand", was a result of nationalism caused by the moulding of the Yugoslavian provinces into a single state. At the same time Germany had put forward a treaty proposal to Austria stating that Germany would defend Austria if they were in trouble a...