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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Title: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Category: Literature / English
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz
Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 proved to be the spark that
ignited World War I (1914-1918). Called "the Great War", it
quickly came to involve all the great powers of Europe and
eventually most countries of the world, and cost the lives
of more than 8 million soldiers.
Among the causes of the war were rising nationalist
sentiment (manifested both in the chauvinism of the great
European powers and in the …showed first 75 words of 1214 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1214 total…she mobilized 7,800,000, and lost 7 million of them, and
astonishing ratio of 90 percent, and though her numbers of
prisoners and missing were high, perhaps reflecting the
dissolution of the state at the end, they were not
inordinately so.
There had been a victory of sorts, but what the victors
celebrated chiefly was that mass death, after four years had
taken a holiday. The illusion was that all of humanity
would profit by the great lesson.
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