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What caused the previous world wars?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

There are many different causes associated with each of the two world wars. In the case of WW I, Serbian separatism was the cause of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand which was the spark that set off the war, but in order for war to be that easily started, there first had to be an unstable political standoff between two very large, arrogant and unreasonable political alliances, the Central Powers and the Triple Entente. Added to this was the long-standing territorial dispute between France and Germany about the ownership of the province of Alsace-Lorraine. Those were the main causes. In the case of WW II the main cause was German resentment about the outcome of WW I. We could say that WW II was just a rematch of WW I.

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14y ago

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