I’m not sure why my blogs are not getting posted, or is it only me who can’t find it.. I’ll just post it again.
By Lindsay Lee.
The world is ticking, the countries are ticking, and the clock never stops. Even though your neighbor has gone down, you will never wait for them to keep up the pace with you. Unless you are holding their hands. Or actually, even though you are holding their hands, you won’t pull them up in hand, but will simply just tell them to get up and keep going. It seems quite lame explaining this way nevertheless, reality is lame as the situation above. War starts with your own personal feelings whether that will be jealousy or hatred. It all ends up the same way, but let’s back up and see how the stage is set for Europe to enter.
The World War I was actually a war to “end” all the war and bring “peace”–which now it seems quite ironic–it was just another start of a great turmoil. For what led to the European nations into the war, there were three main reasons/factors: nationalism, militarism and imperialism. First, nationalism was what made created the rivalries in the first place. When nationalism starts to rise, it gets hard to control, so the power of nationalism is quite strong; it cannot be restrained by others. For example, Britain and Germany had a conflict, they wanted to be better than each other (which is what we call “nationalism.”) In addition, imperialism
was what made the countries actually clash and encounter the other since they wanted more countries/lands than others do. We saw this when all the European nations were interested in Africa simultaneously, and so they carved up Africa at the end.
Last but not least, militarism was some kind of belief that nations thought having a strong military will make them a stronger nation. At this point, Britain was on the lead as a strong army country. Other European nations tried to catch up on them, and Britain, sometimes feared that they will get caught up, so they impeded others from growing (for example, Britain blocked Germany from doing anything).
With all the clinging and clanging within the European nations, every time one nation joins, the situation aggravates (i thought). In addition, looking at one of the most great wars, (even though i know how serious it would have been back then) I found some parts lame; yet more interesting i found it to be. Such feelings rising within oneself, could power the war or trigger such movements, which leads to the war. For example, as Bismarck got afraid of France’s counter-attack or revenge after the Franco-Prussian War, he allied with Austria-Hungary and Italy: to isolate France.
So, World War I propels starting with the three main factors (we could say) and, ironic to say, but it was the war to close the stages, yet, it rather started the catastrophe in Europe.
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