{"id":533,"date":"2017-03-08T06:04:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T06:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldsubjects.wordpress.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2017-03-08T06:04:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T06:04:34","slug":"why-world-war-1-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideasareimmortal.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/08\/why-world-war-1-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did World War 1 happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why did World War 1 happen? This is the question addressed in Richard Maybury’s book on World War 1. Link:<\/strong> World War I. The rest of the story and how it affects you today<\/a><\/p>\n

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Firstly, the belief in deadly ideas<\/strong> that when widely adopted lead to war. These deadly ideas are:<\/p>\n

Political power<\/strong>. Political power is the legal privilege of using force on others who have not harmed anyone.<\/p>\n

The idea of the Pax Romana.<\/strong>\u00a0The belief in the Pax Romana is that there was that there was peace in the Roman empire due to a strong central government.<\/p>\n

The glory of war.<\/strong>\u00a0Propaganda teaches that war is glorious. It makes\u00a0the soldiers want to go to war.<\/p>\n

The following ideas are more U.S. specific. They explain why the U.S. got involved in world war 1:<\/p>\n

Global protection.<\/strong> Global protection is the belief that wherever their citizens go they will be protected by the government.<\/p>\n

Interest.<\/strong> Interest is undefined in law and is used as a reason to go to war.<\/p>\n

Manifest Destiny.<\/strong> Manifest destiny is the belief that god gave U.S. the permission to rule all land. Even if other people already live there.<\/p>\n

World war 1 also, happened due to existing international tensions and alliances.<\/strong> Due to alliances small wars that otherwise would have stayed small became a world war.\u00a0An alliance is the promise to help others in war. Horrible crises before the first world war were:<\/p>\n

The Moroccan crisis.<\/strong>\u00a0As a result of the Moroccan crisis the hatred between France and Germany had grown and the friendship between France and England had strengthened.<\/p>\n

The Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese war.<\/strong> In the Boxer Rebellion the Chinese rebelled against European rule and the Japanese started a war for Manchuria and Korea against Russia. It was the start of Japan building an empire, just like the European powers.<\/p>\n

In 1902 Japan and Britain made an alliance.<\/strong> This required Japan and Great Britain to support each other if one became involved in a war with more than one power.<\/p>\n

To summarize: <\/strong>World War 1 happened, because of the adoption of deadly ideas that lead to all kind of crises and then escalated into a world war due to international alliances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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