Did A Gunshot Really Start The First World War? (July Crisis 1914 Documentary)

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo on the 28th of June 1914 kicked off a crisis among the European Powers. Tensions that built up in the decades before erupted and in early August 1914 the world was at war. But what happened in these fateful July weeks 1914?

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Presented by: Jesse Alexander

Written by: Jesse Alexander

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