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What Caused WWI
great problem would be the competition between Germany and Britain. Britain and Germany were competing to see who could build up the biggest and best military.
The Kaiser William II of Germany hated and envied Britain for having a stronger navy than his. He increased the German navy and built many warships. Britain responded by building more ships and increasing its navy too. This started a race for building more and better warships and it created tension and competition between those two countries.
As it is seen, the world was already on the edge of war even before the assassination at Sarajevo. The wheels of war had started to speed up. The whole world was taking sides after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Historians have learned that factors like the imperialistic, territorial, and economic rivalries had a great deal in helping the Great War to start. These causes had played particularly strong part among Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Due these reasons, I believe that my thesis is correct. The war would definitely still have started even if Archduke Franz Ferdinand had not been assassinated.
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