The Alliance System
- The Alliance SystemMaps out the constellations of nations in World War I
Articles
- Searching for Gavrilo Princip - Smithsonian Magazine This EBSCO link can be accessed directly while connected to the school network. For login details for access outside of school, please check Firefly or ask a member of the library staff.
- Germany, Britain & the coming of war in 1914 - History Review This EBSCO link can be accessed directly while connected to the school network. For login details for access outside of school, please check Firefly or ask a member of the library staff.
Relevant Reading
The Origins of the First World War (Textbook) by ISBN: 0582418666Published: 1992Read Chapter on Militarism and the Arms Race. (Available for loan from the textbook room)
Assassination at Sarajevo by ISBN: 0756538572Published: 2008On June 28, 1914, a 19-year-old Bosnian student named Gavrilo Princip stepped up to an open car on a Sarajevo street and fired two shots. The bullets from Princip's gun killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife, Sophie. The gunfire also set the stage for the most disastrous armed conflict the world had yet experienced. Exactly one month after the assassination in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and World War I began.
The pity of War by ISBN: 9780140275230Published: 1999The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. Was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were the Germans a genuine threat? Was the war, as is often asserted, greeted with popular enthusiasm? Why did men keep on fighting when conditions were so wretched?
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Was World War I inevitable even before the events of Summer 1914?
How important was nationalism as a cause of World War I?
What caused the outbreak of war in 1914?
Of both the long and short term causes of the First World War, which are the most important and which the least?
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