After your initial post, you are required to respond to two of your classmates’ postings. Your responses should include what you agree with or disagree with and why. Your responses may also include an elaboration upon what a classmate wrote.
Your response posts (each around 250 words).
“The causes of World War One were almost like a domino effect that tumbled into leading the deadliest war in the century. The Austrian’s disaster for the Balkans/Serbia ultimately allowed for tensions to flare and eventually explode with the death of Franz Ferdinand. The Balkans were originally an unstable power in Europe, with powers like Russia, Austro-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire fighting to take and control the rogue states. Serbia’s independence ignited a push for the Austria-Hungarians to take control of the country and allow for the expansion of the Balkans. Serbia welcomed unrest within the government to allow for the formation of a Slavic Superstate. This meant that generals and higher-ranking officials were keen on allowing agents of terrorism (The Black Hand) to attack and set chaos into Austria-Hungary. This allowed the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Bosnia by Serbian Nationals led by Gavrilo Princip. The group itself being Serbian allowed Austria-Hungary to send an ultimatum (with the backing of Germany) to Serbia.
The alliance structure that allowed for stability ultimately failed to keep peace within Europe. This is because of the many alliances set up within different countries to allow for “backing” were all to different countries and not to each other. To explain, countries like Serbia set up an alliance with Russia, who then had an alliance with France, who then had an alliance with Britain. These multiple alliances essentially picked sides for the war and allowed for countries once at peace to fight each other because of agreements set up to protect their countries’ interests: not others. Had the countries made alliances with other “enemy” countries then the war would’ve never reached the stage where it became the first World War.
I personally felt as if this conflict was the end and the beginning of a stage in International Relations. The end of “traditional” international politics followed specific isolationist policies that relied on economics. However, it was the beginning of a new idea in which countries would now have a side: The Axis and Allied Powers. It also sparked more contemporary ideas in international relations with the creation of the United Nations (formerly known as the League Of Nations) that began to oversee conflicts in Europe and the rest of the world.”
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