Alliances is the biggest cause of World War I

Alliances is the biggest cause of world war I

Phat Siripaipran
Mr .Phillip Henderson
March 13, 2015

Alliances is the biggest cause of World War I

What is Alliances? Alliances is the country that had helped each other under the
agreement that they did before, so the alliances are the things that joined many countries together
under the agreement. Alliances were the biggest cause of World War I because they will have
more power,

alliances help the countries to win the war easier, and have more weapons and

supplies.
Countries were allied with each other in order to gain more powers. After the contract
were signed between the country. If one country declared the war, the others must have to
declared and support that country too. It is unavoidable, because of their agreement. In some
cases, some country signed it just because they wanted the advantage from the contract and they
hate the enemy, so they wanted that country to be on their own. When they gain more power like
they think their army is strong enough, and they think they were ready to declare the war. And
this one is a factor that make the war occur easier. According to document 2 said that, AustriaHungary makes an alliance with Serbia to prevent Russia gaining control of Serbia. If two or
more countries become allies, and one country declared war, the others country had to declare
war too. So they must have gain more

power.

With more alliances, countries are able to have more weapons, more materials, more
armed force, and more supplies. Without alliances, they will have only the things that they own
and the thing that they have might be lesser than their enemies. But if they have alliances,
according to first statement, when two countries became allied, the army would bigger than
without alliances, because now they are two countries not just only one country anymore. They
will gain more weapons, more resources, more supplies, and more power. They would receive
new technologies from their Alliances that is the factor that cause the war to happen easier. And
the same as the first statement, they think they are ready to declare the war because they ready in
every ways. According to document 3 said that Torpedoes were used by submarines. The
Germans used torpedoes to blow up ships carrying supplies from America to Britain. And

Alliances is the biggest cause of World War I

according to document 1 said that The Bosnian Crisis - In 1908, Austria-Hungary took over
Bosnia. This angered Serbians who felt the province should be theirs. Serbia threatened AustriaHungary with war, Russia, allied to Serbia, mobilised its forces. Germany, allied to AustriaHungary mobilised its forces and prepared to threaten Russia. War was avoided when Russia
backed down. In 1911 and 1912 there was war in the Balkans when the Balkan states drove
Turkey out of the area. The states then fought each other over which area should belong to which
state. Austria-Hungary intervened and forced Serbia to give up land. Tension between Serbia and
Austria-Hungary was high. This is the crisis which is the part of the cause of World War I that
show the how powerful of those countries are when they work together as Alliances. Without
allies countries will not have enough weapons, materials, armed force and supplies enough to
fight in war. And they will think they certainly cannot win the war. So the war will not happened.
Countries with alliances are more likely to win the war. If they have more power and
more weapons, more materials, more armed force and more supplies. According to first
statement and second statement that mean when they had war with the enemies they will have
the bigger army and stronger army. And then they think they will have more opportunities to win
the war more than one country fight with the enemies. According to document 2 said that
Germany and Austria-Hungary make an alliance with Italy to stop Italy taking sides with
Russia. Only one lost head, Two people dead friends this quote is Thai idiom means two
people better than only one person. So that means you wont have fearless if you have partisan.
As the reason above, Alliances must be the most important cause in World War I. If two
or more countries have the same target, they will work together to achieve their target that make
the war happened easier. If without Alliances, they might scare to declare war by themselves
because they might not have power enough. And they will gain more power and they had bigger
army that make make the war happened easier. If they think they have bigger army than other
side, they will think they can beat them.