The Great war is known as World War I. Worlds War was a global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. Its causes were complex and interconnected, stemming from a combination of long-term tensions and short-term triggers:

Imperialism: The concept of imperialism refers as a system in which a rich and powerful country controls other countries, to make colonies around the world. Exploit the resources of that country in the name of good governance and white supremacy. European powers kill each other in number of wars for increasing their territory like

Nationalism: Politicians and leaders in East India Company like Britain, French, Dutch, and Portuguese created a sense of nationalism to get people to support them. They used that nationalism to fill the vacancy in military and result the number of young people whose age are 18 or 20 to join military as soldier. Individuals of different castes, colours, regions, and continents have strong feelings of national identification. Countries use all of these tactics to compete with each other and exploit the citizen of their country. In the result the achieve their goals expansion of territories.

Militarism: The race to build more weapons between European countries is making the world and the people of Europe far more dangerous. Europe was very selfish and greedy at the time, so they took resources from all over the world to use in their factories and to make money. As Europe became more industrialized, they needed to increase their military and navy power and set up colonies around the world to take advantage of their resources.

Alliance System:

The Great war or First World War introducing a system of Alliance, and mainly divided into 2 parts or two key alliances:

1. The Triple Entente and
2. The Central Powers.

Allies of the Triple Entente:

Russia: was a first allies to join with France and Great Britain. Russia joined these alliances groups because it wanted to keep being a more power in Europe and was in competing with Austria-Hungary.

France: became an ally of Russia because the expansionist policy of Germany. Both countries were worried about Hitler territorial expansion. And they had numbers of agreements, such as the Franco-Russian union of 1894, made the union legal and official.

United Kingdom: Britain was initially not showing interest to join official alliances at first. After that they think and agree to joined the Triple Entente because it was worried about growing of German’s naval power and needed to keep the balance of power in Europe.

The Central Powers

Germany: The super boss of the Central Powers was Germany. Hitler made deals with Italy and Austria-Hungary as ally and work together. Germany formed alliances to counter and fight the growing power of Russia and France and to show that it was the most powerful and emerging country in the Europe.

Austria-Hungry: The country aligned itself and sided with Germany because both countries were worried about Russian expansionism in the Balkans and wanted to move away and keep control of their large and varied kingdom.

The Ottoman Empire: The Ottoman empire, Osmania Empire or Turkish Empire joined the Central Powers in 1914, to counter and fight to British and Russian power in the Balkans and the Middle East.

Italy: Initially Italy was in the part of Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary. But in 1915, Italy changed side and joined the Allies Triple Entente because the secret Treaty of London offered to more land. Italy betrayl of the central power with the help of Britain and France.

With each country feeling obligated to uphold its alliances and assist its friends in times of trouble, these agreements created a complicated web of duties and promises that sped up the conflict very quickly after it began.

Immediate Triggers: In 1914, a group of Serbian nationalists killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. This was the event that started the war. After Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, other countries in Europe joined forces and declared war on each other.

Tangled Diplomacy: The Meaning of Tangled is “to be involved in something that is unpleasant or complicated and from which it is difficult to escape”.

The situation was made worse by diplomatic failures and misunderstandings, as leaders or politician were unable to reduce or minimise tensions or find peaceful resolutions to the conflict.

Economic Factors: Due to industrialization and globalization each country increase their Economic strength.  Powerful countries set up colonies all over the world to get the raw materials they need for their industries & businesses. In this situation, there was a lot of fighting between them because of rivalries and trade disputes.

Causalities: There were about more than 10 million military deaths, more than 7 million citizen deaths, 21 million injuries, and 7.7 million people who are missing or in jail.

Events Before and During World War I

Year/Month	Event
1878	Serbia gained independence from the Ottoman Empire
1881	Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy form the Triple Alliance to defend each other in the event of war
1904	Britain forms the Entente Cordiale with France
1907	Russia Joins with Britain to form the Triple Entente
1908	Austria-Hungary Occupies Bosnia-Herzegovina to stop Serbia from taking control
1912-1913	Balkan Wars are fought between the Balkan League (Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro). The Balkan League is victorious
1914 – June 28	Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
1914 – July 28	Austria declares war on Serbia. Russia prepares to defend Serbia from Austria
1914 – August 1	Germany declares war on Russia to defend Austria
1914 – August 3	Germany Declares war France, Russia’s ally
1914 – August 4	German armies march through Belgium to France. Britain declares war on Germany. World War I begins
1914 – August 26	Germany defeats Russian forces at the battle of Tannenberg
1914 – September	At the battle of the Marne, the Allies halted the German advance on Paris. German victory in the same month ends Russian involvement in East Prussia.
1914 – November	At the end of the battle of Ypres, German forces are prevented from itching the English Channel

Frequently Asked Questions Related to World War I

Q1: How did the first world war start?

Answer: The murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary started World War I. Austria-Hungary attacked Serbia. After Russia mobilized because to its affiliation with Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia. A chain reaction of war declarations led to global conflict.

Q2: How many died in WW1 total?

Answer: During World War I, about 40 million people, both soldiers and civilians, died. Twenty million people died and twenty one million were hurt.

Q3: Why was WWI so deadly?

Answer: More people died than in any other war in history. This was partly because the armies were using new tools, like tanks, airplanes, submarines, machine guns, modern weapons, flamethrowers, and poison gas.