Alliances pretty much started the whole war, it determined who was fighting who basically
It tried to increase its military hopefully causing fear into the colonists to back down.
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They heavily taxed the indigenous Africans and required them to pay in cash. in my country, the British have been seizing the best farmland for many years. ... Both fought for independence after violent uprisings in their countries. hoped this help :-)
a series of complicated factors caused the war, including a brutal assassination that propelled Europe into the greatest conflict the continent had ever known. The murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand outraged Austria-Hungary. ... Austria-Hungary was furious and, with Germany's support, declared war on Serbia on July 28.
