Many of the European powers had entered into alliances requiring them to defend each other.
The systems of alliances and military plans which were put in place before World War I presupposed a major war between the countries which were tied together with alliances. Because the Triple Entente had Britain, France and Russia as allies, Germany thought if a war began it would need to fight on two fronts -- west and east. So German Field Marshall Alfred von Schlieffen drew up war plans that said attack France first, quickly, and then hold that territory while deploying forces to contend with Russia in the east.
So then here's how it happened. When an Austrian prince and his wife were assassinated in Serbia, the Austrian Empire threatened the nation of Serbia with retaliatory action (even though the assassination was carried out by a terrorist group, not the Serbian government). Russia responded to Austria's threat, because Russia was bound to protect its Slavic ally, Serbia. Germany responded to the mobilization of Russian troops, and when Germany declared war on Russia in 1914, they implemented the Schlieffen Plan and went on attack vs. France. That pulled France and Britain into the war immediately as well, and the war spread and became a global conflict.
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b. Financial and political leaders enjoyed the benefits of imperialsim too much to cease this activity.
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Let´s look at recent history. After the end of WWII, Britain and France strove for regaining control of their colonial posessions in Africa and Asia. But their might and influence was severly undermined by the war. Britain gave independence to its colonies in the 1950s and 1960s, and the French were forced to recognize Algerian independence after a long and bloody war, and they were soundly defeated by the Vietnamese Communists in 1954 and forced to recognize North Vietnam as an independent country.
