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HSC Modern History - the causes of World War 1: Causes of War

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Causes of War

The car in which Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914

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The Alliance System

Diagram of Alliances

Articles

Search History Reference Centre for the following:


Mulligan, W 2011, 'THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.', History Review, 69, pp. 12-17, History Reference Center, EBSCOhost


Mason Crest, P 2007, 'The Ottomans in the First World War.', World War I & the End of the Ottoman Order pp. 42-55 US: Mason Crest Publishers History Reference Center, EBSCOhost


Marshall Cavendish, C 2002, 'The World before the War.', History Of World War I, 1, pp. 8-27, History Reference Center, EBSCOhost


Search State Library of NSW ProQuest Historical Newspapers for the following: (You will need your State Library of NSW Readers' Card to access these.


By C.W. BARRON. (1915, Jan 04). Political causes of the most audacious war. Wall Street Journal (1889-1922), pp. 1. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/129530747?accountid=13902


How the world drifted to war. (1929, Aug 01). The Times of India (1861-Current), pp. 10. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/744276130?accountid=13902


Devoss, D. (2000): 'Searching for Gavrilo Princip', Smithsonian Magazine, August 2000, pp.42-53  

On the trail of Archduke Ferdinand's assassin

 

Messenger, R. (2004): 'Guilty as Charged', New Criterion 22, pp.92 f.

A review of Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? by David Fromkin.

Schmitt, H. A. (2000): 'Inexplicable World War I', Virginia Quarterly Review

Reviews 'The Pity of War: Explaining World War',  By Niall Ferguson.

History Today magazine published the following articles. Get the log-in details from the Library staff to log in and read the articles.

Wikinson, R. (2002): 'Germany, Britain & the Coming of War in 1914', 

French, David : "Britain and the origins of the First World War"

 

Key Questions

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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