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Why the World Went to War: The Road to 1914 Trailer Part 2 · The Twin History Podcast

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  You've joined us. For a series.
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  On the First World War part, through a World War One, as I
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  like to call it. Well, I mean, as a story in my
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  own analysis shows that Austria Hungary were masters of their
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  own destiny during those chaotic weeks in July 1914.
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  They weren't going to be dissuaded from going to war with
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  Serbia. Johnny, what do you like to call
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  it? Well, I prefer the First World
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  War because World War One makes the sound like a movie.
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  So Germany had the marriage of an 1871 out of the US agencies
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  of war, intellectualism and ambition.
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  So her military strength, her Prussian traditions, her
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  geographical position and her large empire or grown empire
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  would prove to be of alarming import to the Western powers.
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  But, well, it was a movie in some ways for.
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  Me. It's what led to the First World
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  War, Nationalism, Pan Slavism and the threat to the Austell
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  Hungarian Empire, primarily in the East.
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  It was so long ago it may as well have been a movie.
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  You could see. Again without that moment, then
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  the. First World.
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  War does not happen. That is complete nonsense.
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  That is complete and utter nonsense, yes.
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  But if we're calling it World War One, that suggested that
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  that at the end of the First World War that there definitely
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  was going to be a World War Two. There occurs the Serbian state
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  of complicity in the crime and they wanted the removal of
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  certain army personnel, they wanted the crash restricted,
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  they wanted certain nationalist groups destroyed in Serbia and
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  even the eradication of literature deemed to be negative
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  to the Austro Hungarian Empire removed from Serbian schools.
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  It all seems pretty reasonable to me.
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  Not at all. There was a great.
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  Sequel, like a sequel, was inevitable.
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  His subsequent murder by Prince, one of the seven conspirators on
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  the ground that day, is a defining moment in world
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  history. It was not, however, the cause
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  of the First World War. Hopefully we get to the trilogy
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  soon. The causes of the debated since
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  the end of the war in 1918, and they'll still be debating at 100
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  to 400 years from now.