What were the Short Term Causes of WW1?

There were numerous Crises before 1914. There was the First Moroccan Crisis in 1905. Kaiser Wilhelm II visited the Moroccan port of Tangier to denounce the French and their influence there. It provoked an international crisis and resolved in the Algeciras Conference in 1906, to France’s favour. The result brought Britain and France closer together. A Second Moroccan Crisis also occurred in 1911, when the Germans sent a gunboat, named the ‘Panther’, to the Moroccan port of Agadir. The claimed they did it to protect German Citizens there, suffering under French rule. This provoked a major war scare in Britain and the Germans agreed to leave Morocco to the French so they could keep their rights in the Congo. This was humiliating for Germany. Austria annexing the Balkans was also another Short Cause. The break up of the Ottoman empire left these territories open to attack. Austria annexed Bosnia, outraging Serbia due to there being a large Serbian population in Bosnia. Russia supported Bosnia and Serbia and accepted this annexation, but vowed not to be humiliated again. Russia encouraged Slavic nationalism and in the Balkans war of 1912-1913 Serbia doubled in size and felt growing support for a union with all slavs under leadership of Serbia.