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How did race for armaments lead to the First World War?
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It was the intense nationalism which turned Europe into an assembly of vast armed camps.
- Each country went on preparing for war and arming itself to the teeth.
- Germany had acquired colonies in Africa and a few islands in the Pacific.
- In order to protect her colonies Germany began to build a powerful navy.
- The Germans dug the Kiel Canal deeper so that battle ships could find shelter in its waters.
- England requested Germany not to make such naval preparations, but she did not pay any heed, which increased the hostilities between these nations.
- Britain and France were concerned about Germany's growing military strength.
- There was an arms race and the peculiar feature of such a race is that if one country increases its armaments, other countries are compelled to do the same.
- For every battleship built by Germany, two such ships were built by England.
- Such a race for armaments could end only in a war.
- The Krupps in Germany, Vicker Armstrong in England and Schneiders in France owned high-profit armament industries. The defence spending had increased irrationally between 1908 and 1914.
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