Countries like Britain and France valued most from this while Germany did not but after the Great war they decided since they have to pay everyone for the war that was blamed on they need to find the money and Africa was goldmine for potential money. Before the war Germany grew quite wealthy from what was later known as the second revolution. The Second revolution was all about the steel and how they used it to spend on making inventions, guns, planes and the submarine which won them the waters against the great navy of the British but also to trade to so many countries. (Document 6)
Assassination/Spark: One of main causes or excuses is the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914 this would be later known as the spark of the Great war. It prompted Austria-Hungary, looking for an open door for the decay of Serbian nationalism. The death and the events that took after were known as the July Crisis. Without the death the war most likely would not have happened as abruptly as it