Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Causes of the First World War. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
An eight page paper which looks at the causes of World War One and discusses whether the conflict could have been avoided, in terms of the various conflicts of national interests which contributed to the instigation of the conflict and the struggle for domination of Europe between the powers involved.
Bibliography lists 4 sources
Page Count:
8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLwwcauses.doc
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
was the result of a combination of mistakes and misjudgements on the part of politicians and governments on all sides. Even though the trigger which sparked the actual mobilization of
troops was the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, there were a number of other international scenarios which contributed to the climate in which one single and apparently isolated event could
result in the long and bloody conflict which devastated most of Europe for almost five years. There was, for instance,
the perception on the part of the Slav nations that they were only precluded from uniting because of past invasions by Turkey and Germany, and there was a constant threat
of Serbian nationalist uprisings to threaten the Austro-Hungarian empire. As Soward (2001) notes, the Empire was not in a position to allow a great deal of expansion of Serbian rights,
since to do so would have opened a door for all the other smaller states within the Empire to demand greater freedom and, eventually, independence. This was not something, which
the Hapsburgs were capable of contemplating as a viable option for their subject states, even in the future. The assassins
themselves did not seem to have any wider-ranging political motivations beyond protesting at domestic conditions; certainly they did not foresee that their protest would result in a long conflict involving
the whole of Europe. As deLong (2001) points out, it is ironic that at the beginning of the century, war was fought in an attempt to facilitate the unity of
Serbo-Croat peoples against empiricism, and again at the end of the century in order to divide them. The Hapsburg
...