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Why Did the Diplomatic Choices of July 1914 Fail to Prevent World War I? - Miscalculations of the Great Powers in 1914 | Sleepy Facts About History
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On 28 June 1914, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo set in motion a sequence of events that destroyed the European order. Yet the outbreak of general war five weeks later was not the result of an automatic mechanism or an uncontrolled cascade. It was the product of specific, documented choices made by identifiable leaders in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, and London. This episode examines the diplomatic crisis of July 1914, exploring how a regional…
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