The four causes of World War 1 were militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism. Nationalism is when the people of a country have a strong respect for it and feelings of pride for that country to the point where they would do anything to have the country at its best. Europeans started to feel this way. Imperialism was when strong countries would want to control smaller nations, and this is what Europe intended to do. The alliances were an issue because when two countries would have problems, other countries would join in to defend their ally. Militarism was when nations would create bigger and stronger militaries and navies. The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 triggered the war.
The Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegraph were two events that made the U.S enter the war. On May 7, 1915 Germans torpedoed the Lusitania where 28 passengers were American. The second event was when Germany and Austria-Hungary sent a telegram to Mexico. In the telegram they asked them to join the Central Powers and in return, when they win the war, Mexico would receive the southwestern region of the United States.
When the war was over there was a peace settlement. Wilson’s Fourteen Points was when there were no more secret dealings in countries and Austro-Hungarian Empire was divided. In the treaty of Versailles the United States returned to isolationism, a country doesn’t get involved with others, and refused to join the League of Nations. I think that the peace settlement caused for the nations to recover. In the 1920s and 1930s I think that isolationism continued and the countries didn’t face more problems.
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