<span>Nationalism: devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation
</span><span>Militarism: the policy of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war and their use as a tool of diplomacy </span> <span>System of Alliance: a formal agreement or union between nations (Allies: France, Britain, Russia. Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire) </span> <span>Circumstances of the cause of war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand</span>