{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"19392725","dateCreated":"1264638711","smartDate":"Jan 27, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"harrylime70","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/harrylime70","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/corrhistory.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/19392725"},"dateDigested":1532173536,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Causes of World War One","description":"Do you think Nationalism was the major cause for the outbreak of World War One? Please explain why you either agree or disagree with this statement.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"19524817","body":"@SiuJoon.
\nI could not agree to you on the fact that The soldiers were not passionate about the war.Most of the soldiers were very proud to fight. The Italian soldiers were given special rights and everyone wanted to be like them. Personally, i think the Main cause of World War one, above of all these, is provoked by lust and not been able to trust other countries. If the Bosnians were not trying to build a stronger country, if Britain were to stop trying to stay in power, If France were to stop in trying to expand, if Russian were to stop looking at Austria-Hungry as if they are wolves ready to attack, if Germany were to stop thinking that the allies were trying to encircle them, if Japan did not need to further improve their weapons(reason for joining the allies). And nationalism was also provoked by lust.Nationalism means that people want there own land, but are they sure that they will lead themselves better, the answer might be no, they just want power. And Imperialism was also caused by lust as the countries needed more lands","dateCreated":"1264908518","smartDate":"Jan 30, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"2P234_Hao_Chen","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/2P234_Hao_Chen","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"19862067","body":"Although Nationalism was the issue that sparked World War One, I do not feel that it was the major or main cause. The murder of the Archduke was a form of Nationalism. At that time, Austria-Hungary had taken over Bosnia, which led to the unhappiness of the Serbs, as they felt that Bosnia should belong to Serbia. This led to Serbia declaring war on Austria-Hungary and the "chain" of declaring war continued, and eventually led to the Europe-wide war. Hence, I feel that Nationalism was one of the small issues that caused war, but not a major cause.
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\nHowever, I feel that Imperialism, Militarism and Alliances caused war to break out. There was an Arms Race as well as Nnval competition. This "race" was countries constantly improving their weapon technology and naval strength. This was one of the major causes. The minute one issue sparks everything, the effects would be very devastating. Also, at that time, Great Britain, France and Russia formed an alliance, the Triple Entente, and Germany felt "encircled" by them. Hence, it formed an alliance as well, known as the Triple Alliance. Based on the abovementioned issues, I feel that Imperialism, Militarism and Alliances were major causes for World War One to break out, with the murder of the Archduke, a form of Nationalism, sparking everything.","dateCreated":"1265548508","smartDate":"Feb 7, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"yonqmink","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/yonqmink","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"20061891","body":"I do not think that nationalism was a major cause of World war one. This is because it caused only short term events and not long term causes. An example of nationalism is the bosnian conflic. This conflict did not last long and did not lead to much rivalry between the major powers. I feel the major causes of World war one are militarism and imperialism.","dateCreated":"1265896597","smartDate":"Feb 11, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"y09FooGuoWei","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/y09FooGuoWei","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"20111857","body":"I feel that Nationalism is what that sparked the war but it is not the main cause of the war.
\nI feel that the alliances is actually the most important cause as the alliances lead to the arm race. When a conflict between two countries occur, countries from different allies will attack one another, thus causing the war.","dateCreated":"1265965282","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"4H109_JasonCher","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/4H109_JasonCher","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"20224513","body":"In my opinion, Nationalism was not a major cause of World War One. It was just one of the contributing factors of World War 1. IN this case, Nationalism would have been demonstrated through the assassination of the Archduke by the Serbian terrorist which led to World War One. In my opinion, that was just a short-term cause. There were many other more significant contributing factors such as the naval and arms race between Germany and Britain and the forming of alliances. This caused tensions between countries and hence made war inevitable. Had this not been the case, the assassination of the Archduke would not have caused such a major war with so many countries involved. Hence, I feel that although Nationalism did indeed contribute to starting World War 1, other factors such as Imperialism, Militarism and the Alliances played a bigger role.","dateCreated":"1266298617","smartDate":"Feb 15, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"2p108_JeremyEe","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/2p108_JeremyEe","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"20226039","body":"I think that nationalism was a major cause or the World War One.
\nNationalism caused the soldiers to want to fight.
\nNationalism caused the soldiers to want to fight for their country, and gave them something to hope for and fight for. And without the soldiers there would be no war. (And there was no cyber warfare then. )
\nNationalism caused the citizens in the country to group together and oppose the other countries and support their own countries. Without nationalism, would all that happen?
\nAlthough most of the other nationalism causes of the world war are short term causes, I feel that the short term causes are also major ones. For example, if you have a heart disease, it is the heart attack that finishes you off and not the disease.
\nSo, I believe that Nationalism was a major cause of the war.
\nOf course, there are other major causes of the war, like Imperialism and the arms race but that wouldn't be answering the question.","dateCreated":"1266307308","smartDate":"Feb 16, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"2P104_ChikChengJie","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/2P104_ChikChengJie","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"20226383","body":"Although Nationalism is a major cause of World War One, I feel that there are many other reasons that sparked it off. The assassination of the Archduke in Sarajevo is clearly the breaking point for the war but tension has been building up long before his murder.
\nPersonally, I feel that the alliance system was a major contributing cause to World War one. I think that in the first place the declaration of war by Austria-Hungary to Serbia itself followed by the backing of several countries was an unreasonable act. With the implementation of the Alliance system, countries in the same continent, Europe, had divided themselves into two major factions. These two alliances could have been formed due to opposing ideals and military opportunities. Hence, whenever a crisis occurred, the countries would be prompted to siding with their own factions. This clouded what would have been clearly the reasonable answer to the crisis and gave countries the assurance to carry out their plans. This is demonstrated when Germany sides with Austria-Hungary in the war. With two alliances supporting each other without question, it was only a matter of time when a small incident would build up to be a big crisis.","dateCreated":"1266310222","smartDate":"Feb 16, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"2P132_WuJiankai","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/2P132_WuJiankai","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"20231049","body":"I feel that Nationalism is a major cause of the war and there were two examples: the Balkans and Germany.
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\nGermany wanted to be the strongest country in Europe and thus, increased steel production, worked hard to win the arms race, and also build a larger navy. The British were afraid that their navy would no longer be the strongest and thus, this strained the relations between the two countries.
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\nAnother example would be in the Balkans, where Serbia wanted to be stronger. However, their attempts to do so were stopped by Austria-Hungary. This led to the assasination of the Archduke and the murderer felt that he had done no wrong as he had killed a bad man. Nationalism is shown here as the murderer assasinated the Archduke as he felt that the Archduke prevented Serbia from becoming a stronger country. This sparked the war, and thus, I feel that Nationalism is a major cause of the war.","dateCreated":"1266330855","smartDate":"Feb 16, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"2P126_WeiWen","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/2P126_WeiWen","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"20231255","body":"I think that nationalism was a major factor for the outbreak of World War One. Nationalism can be seen in two cases, the assassination of the Archduke and the tension between Germany and Britain. For the assassination of the Archduke, the assassin assassinated the Archduke because Austria-Hungary was taking over Bosnia, which the Serbs felt it was theirs. The nationalistic Serbs were very angry about this and thus they declared war on Austria-Hungary. If the Serbs were not nationalistic, they would not have cared about the loss of their land or maybe feel a little sad or angry or at most take some small action and recover their land. They would not have gone to the extent to assassinate the Archduke. If they did not want to kick up such a fuss, they would not have assassinated the Archduke, and I believe they understand the consequences. This was all due to nationalism. For the case of Germany and Britain, Germany had an ambition of expanding her land to maybe, the whole of Europe. This was because of nationalism and the Germans wanted their country to rule because they loved their country. This led to the naval race. Germany was frantically expanding and strengthening their navy, which made the Britains (who were scared of losing their position as the nation with the strongest fleet) feel threatened. Thus the Britains started to strengthen their fleet nad eventually this led to the naval race. Maybe nationalism was also present in Britain as British did not want Britain to fall behind, they also wanted Britain to excel, thus they also started strengthening their fleet. In an overview, it seems that nationalism was a small factor that led to other deadly factors, thus nationalism can be considered a major cause of World War 1 and get a place in M.A.I.N. Also, M.A.I.N. is not there for no reason, militarism, alliances and imperialism must have an important role in sparking off World War 1, but that would be out of the topic.","dateCreated":"1266331170","smartDate":"Feb 16, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"2P127_WeiZheng","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/2P127_WeiZheng","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"20274651","body":"I agree that Nationalism was a major cause of World War One. The French was willing to go to war because they lost to Germany before and lost some land to them. They believe the land to be rightfully theirs, and they want it back, thus going to war. This Nationalism, and without this, France, a major country in the war, may have been less willing to go to war and the scale of the war may be smaller. Nationalism also affected Germany, as they wanted to expand their territory. Without Nationalism, the people of Germany would be less supportive of war and Germany may not have recruited so many people for the war.
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\nThus I can conclude that Nationalism is a main cause of the war.","dateCreated":"1266390904","smartDate":"Feb 16, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"2P105_JonahHeng","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/2P105_JonahHeng","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"20636451","body":"At Elvis's post (a long long time ago)
\nYeah you are right. I got confused by the definition of imperalism. Thanks for pointing that out.","dateCreated":"1267017896","smartDate":"Feb 24, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"2P109_JunXian","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/2P109_JunXian","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"20703725","body":"@Jonah
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\nYou said that Nationalism affected Germany as they wanted to expand their territory. However, I feel that this is more likely to be a cause of Imperialism as the definition of imperialism is the want to expand one's own country and colonise other countries, like the Kaiser's imperialistic ambitions of wanting to expand by taking over more colonies in Africa that both France and Britain has not colonised. It is more of an example of imperialism instead of nationalism.
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\n@Jason Cher
\n"When a conflict between two countries occur, countries from different allies will attack one another, thus causing the war."
\nWhat do you mean by this? When there is tension or conflict, can you name an example? It also depends on how important the tension is and how strong the countries are. If on one side, it is weak, they would obviously want to find a more diplomatic way to solve it rather than going to war, in which they would definitely lose
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\nThank you","dateCreated":"1267101335","smartDate":"Feb 25, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"2P122_OngSean","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/2P122_OngSean","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":80}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}