AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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nationalism
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assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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The formation of Alliances
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militarism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Expert-Verified Answer. Militarism, Alliances and Imperialism are the cause of World War I. liberalism is not the cause of World War I.
Detailed explanation-2: -The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo (the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia-Herzegovina) on 28 June 1914 eventually led to the outbreak of the First World War.
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: -When it was learned that the heir-apparent to the Austrian throne, Franz Ferdinand, was scheduled to visit Sarajevo in June of 1914, the Black Hand decided to assassinate him because of his perceived threat to Serbian independence.