It united and broke nations that were all the way across the world and led them all under a single cause. You had nations fighting from the shores of Kamchatka in the Eastern Russian regions all the way to the fronts in France, this was truly the first time the world has seen a war on this scale. Throughout the rest of the book, Fromkin goes on to give 2 main conclusions dealing with the causes of the war. These reasons boiled down to the German and Austrian Empires and their battles that led to the conflicts that we now know as World War 1. As Professor Magagna detailed in his lecture, when it came to the balance of power during this period, the conflicts of this era caused these players to choose war over attempted peace. (Lecture,
It united and broke nations that were all the way across the world and led them all under a single cause. You had nations fighting from the shores of Kamchatka in the Eastern Russian regions all the way to the fronts in France, this was truly the first time the world has seen a war on this scale. Throughout the rest of the book, Fromkin goes on to give 2 main conclusions dealing with the causes of the war. These reasons boiled down to the German and Austrian Empires and their battles that led to the conflicts that we now know as World War 1. As Professor Magagna detailed in his lecture, when it came to the balance of power during this period, the conflicts of this era caused these players to choose war over attempted peace. (Lecture,