The Main Causes of Wars Are Long Term, Discuss

How can you define long-term effects, what are long term effects? In the case of the Wars I am studying the use of long-term effects. To me long-term effects are a cause from which a problem has arisen several years before and therefore have knock on affects from one problem that amounts to another before something finally acts as the catalyst and sets off the war. In the case of World War One the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the event that started World War One officially.

World War One has been written to have been caused by long-term affects, it has been written that even as far back as 1871 that tensions grew to lead off this war. It is said that a complex web of alliances and counterbalances that developed between the various European powers after the defeat of France and the formation of Germany under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck helped towards it. Most theorists however say that it was caused by the act of Gavrilo Princip of the Black Hand Gang. Gavrilo