1.
- Loans to belligerents
• $1.5 billion to Allies, $8 million to Central powers
- Sinking of Lusitania
• shocked public
- Violation of Sussex Pledge
2. Militarism; the belief in building up a strong armed forces to prepare your country for war.
Alliance System; countries agreed to support one another in case of an attack. 2 alliances would emerge: Triple Entente (good) and Triple Alliance (bad).
Imperialism; Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Russia all scrambles for colonies in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Each nation wanted new trade markets and the raw materials of these new regions.
Nationalism; pride or devotion to one's country. Nationalism encouraged unity, and also would put nation against nation.
3. The explosive that was WW1 had been long in the stockpiling; the spark was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
