It began with a bullet in Sarajevo and ended with empires in ruins. In between lay a few fevered weeks where diplomats scribbled ultimatums, armies mobilized like clockwork toys, and politicians believed, with tragic certainty, that they could control the forces they were unleashing. They could not. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, that relic of a crumbling […]
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The Outbreak of World War I: The March to War: How Europe Plunged into Chaos in 1914
On a hot summer’s day in 1914, Europe teetered on the edge of catastrophe. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand might have been the match that lit the fire, but the forest was already dry, the winds already howling. In a matter of days, diplomatic cables turned into declarations of war, treaties snapped like old […]
Origins of World War I: The War That Was Never Meant to Happen
It is a curious irony of history that the most devastating events often unfold not through grand conspiracies or inevitable clashes, but through a slow, reluctant march of misjudgments. One hundred years ago, the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s declaration of war against Serbia, ostensibly a local affair, became the spark that engulfed the world. As we look […]