1.3 The Slide To War
Who were the Black Hand?
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While the previous lesson focuses on the long-term causes leading to the outbreak of World War One, here we take a look at what happened once the dominoes of alliances, ententes, and rivalries were finally set into motion. But, was World War One unavoidable?
This lesson contains:
- The chronology of key events of the 1914 July Crisis, from the assassination of Austria- Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand to Britain declaring war on Germany.
- The vocabulary and terminology necessary to study the 1914 July Crisis and wider World War One history with confidence.
- An analysis of which of the short-term causes were the most influential in leading Europe into World War One.
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