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= World War 1 =

By Dr Miner
The Great War, better known as World War One, was one of the most tragic and deadliest wars in history. Research shows that Serbia started the war. The war started on July 28, 1914 and the countries that were involved was Russia, Italy, Britain and France were the core of the Allied Forces, and the Central Powers, which included Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany. There were many factors of why the war took place but there were five main reasons Awful governments Militarism Alliances Imperialism and Nationalism. Firstly Awful Governments was one of the five reasons the war broke out. With most of the government's having a king or a queen they had stupid and corrupt laws. Another reason the war broke out was Nationalism. In those days people would get enraged at an insult toward their country.The third factor that led to the great war was Imperialism. Imperialism drove the other nations to expand and conquer the lesser and weaker nations, This led to clashes between the imperialist powers over the land. The fourth reason why the war took place was because of Militarism. The governments of europe were militaristic but a few were advanced that caused the others to try to improve their military. The fifth reason was the alliances. With two nations going to wart if they were in an alliance the other countries would be forced to join in to help their ally win. Secondly the reason it is believed that Serbia started the war was a Serbian terrorist group, called The Black Hand assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. After the assassination of Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary came up with ten really tough demands to Serbia and failure to oblige and do these demands a war would be declared. Serbia did not want a war so they agreed to do all of the demands except part of the six demand. Using this as an excuse Austria-Hungary declared war on serbia. As you can see The Great War, better known as World War One, was one of the most tragic and deadliest wars in history. This war started on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. The countries that fought were the Allied Forces and the Central Powers. That's what made it such a big war with all of these countries involved in these alliances.