The start of Wars |
World War I was a significant event in history, the war had several main causes, such as: Militaristic Systems, Alliance Systems, Nationalist Movements, and Imperialism, and a immediate cause of the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary's leader at the time.
This was the first giant war involving many of the main European countries such as Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the US (in a different continent) made up the Allied powers; while Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire made up the Central Powers. The Allied won.
After the time period of World War 1 there was faced with a slight period of rest from about 1918 to around 1939.