Will to make war

 
Festering animosity
- Revanchism and humiliation

 
Nationalism
- Preserving national prestige
- Forming national identity
- Greed and exansion

 
Pan Slav movement
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Balance of power disturbed

 
Kaiser
- Weltpolitik
- Unssuccesful risk taking
- Stirring the pot

 
Industrial revolution
- war was made a bigger threat
- enabled printing, mass literacy, will for war
- allowed weapon production and army building

 
Short term solutions
- Fragile balance of power
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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand