The Main Causes Of Wars Are Long Term, Discuss
...the use of long-term effects. To me long-term effects are a cause from which a problem has arisen several years before and therefore have knock on affects from one problem that amounts to another before something finally acts as the catalyst and sets off the war. In the case of World War One the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the event that started World War One officially.
World War One has been written to have been caused by long-term affects, it has been written that even as far back as 1871 that tensions grew to lead off this war. It is said that a complex web of alliances and counterbalances that developed between the various European powers after the defeat of France and the formation of Germany under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck helped towards it. Most theorists however say that it was caused by the act of Gavrilo Princip of the Black Hand Gang. Gavrilo Princip famously assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Countess Sophie in Sarajevo on June 28th 1914. This event ultimately led to an attack by Austria against Serbia triggering World War One. Nevertheless reasons behind the cause of the war are very complicated, many factors intertwine; fervent and uncompromising nationalism, unresolved previous disputes, the intricate system of alliances, convoluted and fragmented governance, delays and misunderstandings in diplomatic communications, the arms races of the previous decades and rigidity in military planning.
Austria–Hungary was created in the "Ausgleich of 1867" after Austria was defeated by Prussia. As agreed in 1867, the Habsburgs were the Emperors of the Austrian Empire. With the formation of the Dual Monarchy, Franz Josef became leader of a nation with sixteen ethnic groups and five major religions speaking no fewer than nine languages. In large measure because of the vast...
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