Industrial developments in Europe 1870-1914 and their reflection on the countries of the world

Abstract

The study explained that the most important aspects of industrial progress in Europe are increasing wealth and growth of European industrial capitalism, increasing production and quality, and the escalation of inventions that benefited mankind and changed the world and facilitated human life in various fields, and led to industrial developments   in Europe led to the search for colonies in Asia and Africa, controlling them and exploiting their material and human resources and plundering its economic goods using various means, especially military ones. From that, the colonies and competing for them and determining their ownership are among the justifications for important conflicts from the seventies of the nineteenth century until the outbreak of the First World War and this competition led to an escalation of the armament capacity of European countries and the adoption of the system of forced recruitment by Europe, and Europe became a large, well-armed camp, especially after increasing German-British naval competition, as Germany found a policy of Al- Marine weapon is a powerful tool to end its foreign problems in acquiring colonies with Britain, at the same time Britain has categorically rejected the German fleet to be more powerful and efficient than the British fleet, and promised German armament a threat to it, because that would lead to its abdication of its naval sovereignty The loss of its colonial and economic position, the diminution of its international reputation, and the increase in military-naval armament between them, due to the industrial development in Europe, led to the deterioration of German-British political relations and the outbreak of the First World War.