USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919

CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
MAIN stands for ____
A
Miitarism, Alliances, Intervention, Non-Aggression
B
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
C
Militarism, Adventurism, Imperialism, Non-Aggression
D
Mutually Assured Instant Nationalism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The M-A-I-N acronym – militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism – is often used to analyse the war, and each of these reasons are cited to be the 4 main causes of World War One.

Detailed explanation-2: -The four causes or four explanations are, in Aristotelian thought, four fundamental types of answer to the question “why?", in analysis of change or movement in nature: the material, the formal, the efficient, and the final.

Detailed explanation-3: -This increase in militarism helped push the countries involved into war. The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism) was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.

Detailed explanation-4: -One alliance included Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, called the Triple Alliance. Opposing them was the Triple Entente of France, Russia and England. These complex tensions finally exploded into war.

Detailed explanation-5: -M-A-I-N. • The M-A-I-N acronym is often used to analyse the war – militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism.

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