Answer to Question #243962 in History for Khados

Question

Why the first world war was a global conflict

Answer 1

The First World War was a global war was itself the product of a global order, shaped by the European great powers and bound by an embryonic economic system. ... Decisions made in the interest of individual nations also had an effect on the widening of the war from a regional dispute.

Specifically, there were tensions in the Balkan Peninsula, as well as ongoing disputes over who controlled the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine between France and Germany. But other motivations were more global. Britain and France both hoped to gain Ottoman territories along the Mediterranean Sea. Russia, too, hoped to gain control of the Dardanelles Strait from the Ottomans so they could gain access to the Mediterranean. Japan aspired to control German colonies in the Pacific Ocean. Later, when Russia left the side of the Entente powers, troops from Britain, France, Japan, and the United States campaigned against the Russians as well. A large number of empires and power involved, plus the global misunderstanding on economic matters, proved it as a world war