MAIN Causes of WW I

• The Causes of World War One What happened and why

• The Balkan Causes of World War One

• How it began

• Daily Mirror Headlines: The Declaration of War, Published 4 August 1914

Militarism

• General Friedrich von Bernhardi, "The Next War" (1914)

• Wilhelm II Speaks to New Army Recruits (1891)

• The Schlieffen Plan (1905)

• The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary, September - October, 1908

• The Haldane Mission, 8 - 12 February, 1912

Alliance System

• The Dual Alliance Between Austria-Hungary and Germany, October 7, 1879

• The Three Emperors League,   June 18, 1881

• Triple Alliance 1882 - Italy joined Germany and Austria-Hungary's alliance

• Entente Cordiale 1904 - Anglo-French diplomatic agreement

• The Anglo-Russian Entente, 1907 

• Anglo-Russian Entente 1908 - Russia joins the Anglo-French Entente agreement

Imperialism

• 31 March, 1905 The First Moroccan Crisis

• The Morocco Crisis of 1911

• British Imperial Connexions to the Arab National Movement, 1912-1914; Lord Kitchener, the Emir Abdullah, Sir Louis Mallet -- the Case of Aziz Ali, 1914

• My Mission to London, 1912-14 by Prince Lichnowsky

Nationalism

The Balkans: Conflict

• Old Serbian Tales: Marko and the Turks, c. 1450 

• Alfred Lord Tennyson: Montenegro  

• The Eastern Crisis of 1875-78 

• The South Slavs Before World War One: Documents

• The Treaty of Berlin, Excerpts on the Balkans, 1878 

• Arthur D. Howden-Smith: An Attack on the Bashi-Bazouks, Macedonia, 1907 

• The Constitution of the Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (The Black Hand), 1911

• Bernard Grant: The Flight of the Turks from Lule-Burgas, 1912 

• Philip Gibbs: The Siege of Adrianople, 1912 

Austria Hungary

• The Austrian Constitution, 1867 

• Count von Beust: Memoirs of the Ausgleich, 1867 

• The Hungaro-Croatian Compromise of 1868 (The Nagodba)

• Mark Twain: Stirring Times in Austria, 1898 

The United States

• Zimmerman Telegram