The first world war had many causes, the historians probably have not discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than what we know now. In this essay I would discuss the main causes of the war -the ones that were discussed in the textbook. In the time before the war?s outbreak (before 1914-in the beginning of the century) the world was separated into big empires that had colonies around …showed first 75 words of 1071 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1071 total…always want to expand and conquer other countries so they would become stronger and more powerful. Austria-Hungary was an empire and it collapsed into smaller countries after the first world war, like the Ottoman empire, which was divided between France and Britain. To conclude I can say that there were many reasons for the outbreak of World War 1 and not all of them were discussed here. Only the main and most clear causes were discussed.