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Imperialism is certainly one of the main long-term causes of World War 1, but it was one of several long-term causes including: Militarism, Entangled Alliances, Industrialization, and Nationalism. Imperialism set the various nations of Europe against each other as each tried to acquire more foreign possessions and better position themselves and their raw material acquisitions.

Of course, the short-term cause was the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 and the succession of war declarations that erupted from that.

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