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A 3 page paper reviewing the events leading to the outbreak of World War I. Germany was the primary cause of World War I. German leadership was abrasive and arrogant, and appears to have had no consideration for anything but its own ambition. Germany was Austria-Hungary's ally, and it should have been urging Austria-Hungary to respond to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand responsibility and through diplomatic means. Instead, it encouraged Austria-Hungary to bully Serbia into war so that Germany – as Austria-Hungary's ally contractually bound to assist it – could enter for the purpose of advancing its own causes. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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File: CC6_KSWWIcauses.rtf
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Colloquially, the leading cause of World War I often is referred to as "the straw that broke the camels back." Tension in the area of Germany and Austria-Hungary
had been building for forty years, to the point that practically any excuse for active conflict would do. The Serbian splinter group Black Hand provided that excuse when it
assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne, in 1914 (Duffy, 2004). This act alone would not have been enough to plunge
the entire Western world into war. Had reasonable people been in leadership positions in Germany and Austria-Hungary, likely the entire war could have been avoided. Defense alliances, sub-alliances,
secret agreements and escape clauses created two networks of nations to form two sides, all that was needed to justify a war in the minds of German and Austrian-Hungarian leaders.
Poor Treaty-Making One of the factors leading to World War I was the interlayered treaties and agreements between the nations of Europe to
assist each other in times of war. The existence of these treaties drew several countries into what otherwise could have remained a skirmish between Serbia and Austria-Hungary, which itself
could have been avoided had cooler heads been leading Austria-Hungary at the time of the assassination of their heir to the throne. Certainly Austria-Hungary had to respond to such
an act, but it should have recognized the difference between an act of a splinter group - we refer to them as terrorists today - and an act of the
Serbian government. It likely did recognize that glaring difference but chose to ignore it. Germany used the Serbian - Austria-Hungary incident to
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