Nationalism is an idea and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation’s sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland.

The overall cause of World War was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Nationalism was a great cause of World War one because of countries being greedy and not negotiating. Nationalist groups in Austria-Hungary and Serbia wanted independence.

As such, conservative nationalistic attitudes inevitably lead to conflict internally if not with other groups externally. Even Liberal nationalism which tends to avoid the trends of negative cohesion and militarism that can run through other forms of nationalism can bring about conflict.

How did nationalism and imperialism lead to conflict in Europe? Nationalism and imperialism encouraged each nation to pursue its own interest and compete for power. The existence of the European Alliances. Countries such as Great Britain and Italy were pulled into the war due to the country supporting their allies.

the people of respective states were full of nationalistic feeling. later this created pride in oneself and hatred towards other nations. this leads to aggressive nationalism or negative feeling towards nation. therefore the result was desire for war.

1 Answer. (i) Nationalism and the idea of the nation state emerged within the culturally and regionally diverse groups of Europe. (ii) Due to industrialisation and transformation of society, there emerged a middle-class consisting of businessmen, working professionals, industrialists, labourers and working class people …

Groups like the ‘Black Hand’ wanted to drive Austria-Hungary from the Balkans to form a nation called ‘The Greater Serbia’. It was this intensified form of nationalism that led to the start of World War I through the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914.

Nationalism was a particularly important cause of World War I due to several key factors. For instance, it caused nations to build up their armies and led to increased militarism. As well, it created extremely high tensions in Europe in the decades before the outbreak of the First World War.

The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism) was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. In June 1914, a Serbian-nationalist terrorist group called the Black Hand sent groups to assassinate the Archduke.

“Britain could indeed have lived with a German victory. So strategically, if Britain had not gone to war in 1914, it would still have had the option to intervene later, just as it had the option to intervene after the revolutionary wars had been under way for some time.”

—R. G. Dear R.G., The main reason for the Western Allies’ failure to adequately assist Poland in September 1939 was their complete miscalculation of both Germany’s and Poland’s strategies and their respective abilities to implement them.

If you French had intervened in the Rhineland in 1936 we should have been sunk and Hitler would have fallen. Hitler would have fallen. There was a host of Germans, esp. in the military, expecting his plan to fail and that would have been the start of a coup against him.