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... in the growth of rigidity of the alliance system and imbalance of power. Before the WWII Germany was in economic crisis, because of the consequences of the Versailles Treaty, however it managed to recover as soon as it was rehabilitated by the Locarno Treaty. This time Germany was deliberately aimed at war in order to destroy the Versailles Treaty framework and to gain world hegemony, that was abandoned in the WWI. This again caused imbalance of power that led to the WWII. The second similarity concerns the effect of the spread of ideological disputes and nationalism. In the beginning of the century a lot of anxiety resulted from the spread of Pan-Slavism - a movement calling all Slavic people to join together. It caused instability within the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, which both had Slavs within its populations. Nationalism was even stronger than the family ties among monarchs. Despite ...