Causes of World War I

Summary

This is a pointers-only stub and the first entry in the major-history-events series. The library does not yet hold a condensed note on this topic because the source named for it, OpenStax World History Volume 2, from 1400, is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which is outside the library's allowlist. Until a CC BY, CC0 or public domain source is approved, use the links below.

Facts

None. No source text was condensed for this stub.

Pointers

answers: "How the European alliance system and naval and colonial rivalry set up the war" where: https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-2/pages/11-1-alliances-expansion-and-conflict access: free to read online (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; link only)
answers: "Nationalism in the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires, the Sarajevo assassination and how alliances pulled countries in" where: https://openstax.org/books/world-history-volume-2/pages/11-2-the-collapse-of-the-ottomans-and-the-coming-of-war access: free to read online (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; link only)
answers: "Overview of the long-term causes (alliances, militarism, imperialism, nationalism) and how historians weigh them" where: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_I access: free (CC BY-SA 4.0; link only)
answers: "Day-by-day account of the July Crisis, from the assassination to the declarations of war" where: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Crisis access: free (CC BY-SA 4.0; link only)

Licence

Library text in this stub: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), iinventedlight library. Linked sources keep their own licences and are not reproduced here.

Reviewer note

No CC BY 4.0 OpenStax history text covers this period. A full note would need a public domain or CC BY source that Cole approves, for example a US government history page or public domain primary documents from 1914; none was checked for this stub.

Source: https://iinventedlight.com/library/ · License: CC BY 4.0 · iinventedlight library. Pointers-only stub written in the library's own words; no source text condensed.

Cite this

Permanent ID: iil:note:817dvxw2

iinventedlight Library. 2026. "Causes of World War I (alliances, militarism, imperialism, nationalism, the Sarajevo assassination, the July Crisis)." iinventedlight Library, iil:note:817dvxw2, version of 2026-10-24. https://iinventedlight.com/library/reference/iinventedlight/causes-of-world-war-i/. License: CC-BY-4.0. Summary of https://iinventedlight.com/library/.

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