The causes of World War I

World War I broke out in 1914 after decades of rising tension in Europe, driven by long-term causes like competing alliance systems, militarism, imperial rivalries, and nationalism. The immediate trigger was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, which set off a rapid chain of declarations of war as each country's alliance commitments pulled in the next, dividing Europe into two opposing coalitions.

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