What were the reasons for the First World War?

The growing contradictions between the leading European states became more and more aggravated. Many powers saw in it a way to redistribute the world – an imperialist war. Germany wanted to acquire British and French colonies, as well as seriously advance to the west, France wanted to return Alsace and Lataryngia, lost during the Franco-Prussian war, Russia saw in the war an opportunity to seriously strengthen itself in the Balkans, as well as to calm down the revolutionary processes in the country with military successes …