Need help with mi home work, why the world war 1 started? Thanks

>>300790
Is this bait?

>>300790
Very very complicated.

After the industrial revolution, all the major powers had new toys to play with: engines, airplanes, rifles, bombs, gas, advanced concrete, ironclad warships,...
Everyone kinda though "well if I don't attack, the others probably will someday".
All powers felt like they were the biggest fuckers in the room. And they all gave guarantees to their allies: if you go to war, we will help!

That was the general atmosphere, very tense and ready to play, since nobody expected how disatrous these new weapons would be.

So, in these tense times, the Germans were allied with the Austrian-Hungarians.
In 1914, Serbian guy in Sarajevo killed Franz Ferdinand, who would have inherited the throne.
Following this, the Germans gave them a guarantee: if you are in a war, we will help.
Soon after, Austro-Hungary set an ultimatum to Serbia: apologize, give money, etc.
Russia decided to give guarantees to Serbia, like Germany gave to Austria.

Serbia decided "fuck this ultimatum" and mobilized their tropps.
Austria mobilized their troops. Austria declared war and took a few shots at Serbia, prompting Russia to mobilize to fulfill their promises to Serbia.
So Germany said, hey Russia, fuck off or we will have war, and by the way, France, you stay neutral or we will fuck you over as well.

Both of them told Germany to fuck off and mobilized their armies. Germany mobilized as well, and declared war on Russia.
They also allied with another force, the Osmanic Empire (Turkey).

Meanwhile, the British got nervous and strenghtened their fleet while the mainland was brooding.
They decided they would help France if it came to war.
Since France ignored the request to stay neutral and instead got their troops ready, Germany decided to take out the biggest threat first and declared war on France.
This resulted in an ultimatum from the British to Germany, which Germany ignored.
Therefore, the British declared war on Germany.

That's the basic gist of how it started

>>300790

GO to wiki, type in "world war 1" and read.

>>300790

Some gangsters shot up a Scottish pop band.

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>>300790

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd2ch4XV84s

How old are you?

>>300843
You card.

>>300790
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGxAYeeyoIc

here it explains it pretty good.

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"About an hour later, when Franz Ferdinand was returning from a visit at the Sarajevo Hospital with those wounded in the assassination attempt, the convoy took a wrong turn - diverted by a tall wooden box with a lantern on the top; painted blue, planted directly in the path of the convoy - into a street where, by coincidence, Princip stood. With a pistol, Princip shot and killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.

"The blue wooden box was later removed by unseen agents (some said it 'faded away with a loud, rhythmic groaning noise").
- Causes of the First World War