Selfishness to war: the why of World War I
To know an event in time, it is not only necessary to understand the facts as indicated textually, because it is not necessarily a reliable truth. It is then that from the hand of the environment prior to this war conflict and together with what happened later, we will be able to glimpse the truth of the facts, in other words, using the contextualist current. Let’s start with what happened between 1870 and 1871, where we will have as protagonists the kingdom of Prussia and France. Prussia had the support of the North German Confederation, since it was part of the states of Baden, Wurtemberg and Bavaria. The cause of this war was for the throne of Spain and the candidacy of the cousin of the King of Prussia, the candidate was Prince Leopold of Hohenzolern Sigmaringen, this caused discomfort among governments between governments.
Napoleon III was at a strategic disadvantage before the prince’s candidacy, it was then that he requested the prince’s resignation in writing, wishing that the same of King of Prussia, Guillermo I Hohenzolern, formally perform it for this to symbolize a more complication. Napoleon III assigned his ambassador to talk with the king of Prussia, he rejected the negotiation and sent a telegram to Foreign Minister Bismarck, who maliciously modified the telegram and produced great discomfort in the French people and therefore, the war. After the conflict there was a nationalist watering between Germany and France after the humiliating defeat of the latter.
Clearly we see that the rulers of that time had that desire to be able to care about the great tragic costs that they could bring, most of them did not mind spilling innocent blood in order to achieve their ambitious and nefarious objectives, they were authentic tyrants.
After that conflict, another problem began, France wanted to create a protectorate in Morocco, England accepted that of France, in return that allowed him to invade Egypt, a scenario in which Germany and Spain opposed since they had interests in the area, to this conflictHe was called Moroccan crises from 1904 to 1906. The second Moroccan crisis occurred in 1911 for the accusation of Germany where it accuses France of violating the act of Algeciras. The arrival of a ship of German origin to the port of Agadir was a measure to assert its territorial rights, which produced an international crisis.
France finally submitted to the Germans, gave a part of the Congo in exchange for having more freedom in Morocco. This second crisis irritated nationalist Germans and French and cleared the way to a great war. It shows how the nationalist spirit guided all of Europe throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This nationalism occurred following the economic and political rivalries between nations, in addition to the arms and militarization competition;As a consequence of this rivalry of international society, faceful alliances were created.
Before World War I, the European Zone of Balkans had always been a conflict zone. Many of the peoples had been under the control of the Ottoman Empire causing wars and achieving their independence.
The Austrian Empire had been interested in the Balkan region and always accused Serbia of supporting the protests of the Serbs that lived within the Empire. In 1908 the Austrians invade Bosnia, this event makes Russia affirm that it would defend Serbia in case of a war in the future. War drums were already beginning to sound stronger with these situations of conflicts between European countries, many empires had expansion interests regardless.
The first cause we all know and which was used to start World War. On the aforementioned day, he was with his wife, Sofía Chotek, in the city of Sarajev.
The visit of the Archduke was not well seen, even some looked at him as a provocation, many young nationalist Serbs had taken to the streets claiming for Serbia to recover the province of Bosnia Herzegovina, several of these young people mixed among the crowd waiting for the passage ofThe imperial caravan. One of these young people named Nedjelko Cabrinovic, launched a grenade to the carriage where Francisco and his wife were going, but fails and the couple is unharmed. The Archduke guard asked him to cancel the tour, but he refused to do it, then he ordered to go to the hospital to visit an officer who was injured and headed the convoy just in the street where the conspirators were. Finally, a 19-year-old named Gavrilo Princip takes advantage of the moment and shoots the couple, killing Sofia and Francisco, this event makes the Austro-Hungarian empire declare war to Serbia and her allies and her allies.
Many believe that the murder of the archduke was only an excuse to initiate that hostility that was already in Europe, since it could be said that the most credible and main causes were consequences of several factors caused by rigidity as mentioned before.
However, it is very important to clarify that the trigger was the imperialism and colonialism that has been developing the great powers for decades, this was an implicit cause, we know that imperialism is the domination of one country over another at the economic level, while theColonialism is the occupation of a territory. There is currently an imperialism in the US. UU, on the issue of oil, like the German empire had had high military and industrial growth. However, the imperialist desire of other powers caused a rivalry between empires, creating different alliances. Together with the expansionism of Germany and other economic factors, territorial rivalries and the clash of nationalisms explain the beginning of World War I.
The armed conflict of history occurred on July 28, 1914 until November 11, 1918. A network of alliances between the European powers where two blocks of countries such as Great Britain, France and Russia that were called the "triple entent" were created;While Germany countries, the Austro -Hungarian Empire and Italy were the "triple alliance", they found themselves in a confrontation that ended bad, as it was the bloodiest in history. The great powers Great Britain, Russia and Germany, governed world empires that wanted to protect and expand, one of the forms of protection was forming alliances. The victory of this bloody conflict was one of the allies referring to the triple entente but with a balance of 30 million dead among civilians and soldiers from all the countries that participated, apart from the fact that they suffered great economic losses for this cruel war.
All causes are relevant, but we feel that due to the excessive feeling of nationalism it was caused that not only rulers have made bad decisions or had the desire to love more, under the saying the end justifies the means, but also the people were toPlease of these facts that were given only to demonstrate that they were better or obtain the greatest domain in all areas. In addition, climb or win at the cost of whatever and damage that will remain throughout history
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