Which factors contributed to growing tensions in europe on the eve of world war i? check all that apply. countries built massive armed forces to protect their interests. countries signed trade alliances promising to sell goods to one another. countries made promises to protect one another if attacked. countries competed with one another to build worldwide empires. countries encouraged strong feelings of devotion to the homeland.

The correct answer is choices A, C, D and E.  European countries, especially Germany, became very militaristic since they needed massive and strong armies to protect their interests. To protect these interests they realized that they needed to ally themselves with other nations with converging interests. These interests were highly imperialistic as these nations were empires that held territories both in Europe and overseas which they had conquered, without any regard to the native people’s that inhabited them. These Empires were ruled by very nationalistic elites that indoctrinated their populations to despise and hate the populations of antagonistic empires. The Old Continent was definitely a powder keg waiting to be ignited and explode.

The correct answers to this questions are A, C, D and E. During World War I different factors contirbute to growing the tensions between Europeans nacions. First, Germany increased the armed naval forces, so,  U.K seem it as a incitement of war. Then, it was created alliances: one between Germany, Italy, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey. On the other side, the alliance was between France, U.K, Russia, Portugal and Serbia. Also, there was a feeling revenge from France to Germany to recover Alsace-Lorraine. Finally, the conflict between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia because of the territory of Balkans.

In all the European territory was prominent a strong feeling of devotion to the homeland, due to their imperialist zeal.

This answer was based on an article published in RedHistoria. It is available in spanish on this link: https://redhistoria.com/causas-de-la-primera-guerra-mundial/

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