The 4 M-A-I-N Causes of World War One in 6 Minutes

Possibly the single most pondered question in history – what caused the unbound, senseless slaughter that was the First World War?

It wasn’t, like in World War Two, a case of a single belligerent pushing others to take a military stand. It didn’t have the moral vindication of a resisting a tyrant. Rather, a delicate but toxic balance of structural forces created a dry tinder that was lit by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. That event precipitated the July Crisis, which saw the major European powers hurtle toward open conflict.

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