WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Nationalism and Militarism
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Blockades and unrestricted submarine warfare
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Soviet treaties and alliances
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Imperialism and self-determination
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Detailed explanation-1: -The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (June 28, 1914) was the main catalyst for the start of the Great War (World War I).
Detailed explanation-2: -Wilson’s 14 Points were designed to undermine the Central Powers’ will to continue, and to inspire the Allies to victory. The 14 Points were broadcast throughout the world and were showered from rockets and shells behind the enemy’s lines.
Detailed explanation-3: -The fourteenth point proposed what was to become the League of Nations to guarantee the “political independence and territorial integrity [of] great and small states alike.” Though Wilson’s idealism pervades the Fourteen Points, he also had more practical objectives in mind.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the speech, Wilson directly addressed what he perceived as the causes for the world war by calling for the abolition of secret treaties, a reduction in armaments, an adjustment in colonial claims in the interests of both native peoples and colonists, and freedom of the seas.