{"id":75145,"date":"2022-07-22T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=75145"},"modified":"2022-07-21T17:46:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:46:18","slug":"why-did-the-first-world-war-break-out-july-crisis-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/07\/22\/why-did-the-first-world-war-break-out-july-crisis-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did The First World War Break Out? (July Crisis 1914)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9KESpCFmYMk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[My 2014 series on &#8220;The Origins of World War I&#8221; can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/the-origins-of-world-war-i-a-personal-view\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Although I&#8217;d read a fair bit of history on the period, once I began researching the period, even I was surprised at how many different contributing causes there were.]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Great War<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 15 Jul 2022<\/p>\n<p>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?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Curiosity Stream and get Nebula bundled in and SAVE 26%: <a href=\"https:\/\/curiositystream.com\/thegreatwar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/curiositystream.com\/thegreatwar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT THE CHANNEL<br \/>\nPatreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/realtimehistory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nJohn Ozment, James Darcangelo, Jacob Carter Landt, Thomas Brendan, Kurt Gillies, Scott Deederly, John Belland, Adam Smith, Taylor Allen, Rustem Sharipov, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Marcus Bondura, Ramon Rijkhoek, Theodore Patrick Shannon, Philip Schoffman,  Avi Woolf,  Emile Bouffard, William Kincade,<br \/>\nDaniel L Garza, Stefan Wei\u00df, Matt Barnes, Chris Daley, Marco Kuhnert, Simdoom<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES<br \/>\nAlbertini, Luigi, <em>The Origins of the War of 1914: Volume II<\/em>, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, Publishers 1980)<\/p>\n<p>Becker, Jean-Jacques &#038; Krumeich, Gerd, &#8220;Outbreak&#8221; in Winter, Jay (ed), <em>The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume I<\/em>, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Berghahn, Volker R., &#8220;Origins&#8221; in Winter, Jay (ed), <em>The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume I<\/em>, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Bischof, G\u00fcnter &#038; Karlhofer, Ferdinand (eds), <em>1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I<\/em>, (Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press, 2014)<\/p>\n<p>Clark, Christopher, <em>The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914<\/em>, (London: Penguin Books, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton, Richard F. &#038; Herwig, Holger H. (eds), <em>The Origins of World War I<\/em>, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)<\/p>\n<p>Levy, Jack S., &#8220;Preferences, Constraints, and Choices in July 1914&#8221; in Miller, Steven E., Lynn-Jones, Sean M. &#038; Van Evera, Stephen (eds.), <em>Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War: An International Security Reader<\/em>, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991)<\/p>\n<p>McMeekin, Sean, <em>The Russian Origins of the First World War<\/em>, (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)<\/p>\n<p>Mombauer, Annika, <em>The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus<\/em> (London: Pearson, 2002)<\/p>\n<p>Paddock, Troy R.E., <em>Contesting the Origins of the First World War: An Historiographical Argument<\/em>, (Oxford: Routledge, 2020)<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Wilhelm II &#038; Tsar Nicholas II, &#8220;The &#8216;Willy-Nicky&#8217; Telegrams&#8221; in Neiberg, Michael S. (ed.), <em>The World War I Reader<\/em>, (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2007)<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb OUR SISTER CHANNEL<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/realtimehistory\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/realtimehistory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCREDITS<br \/>\nPresented by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nWritten by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nDirector: Toni Steller &#038; Florian Wittig<br \/>\nDirector of Photography: Toni Steller<br \/>\nSound: Toni Steller<br \/>\nEditing: Jose Gamez<br \/>\nMotion Design: Philipp Appelt<br \/>\nMixing, Mastering &#038; Sound Design: <a href=\"http:\/\/above-zero.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/above-zero.com<\/a><br \/>\nResearch by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nFact checking: Florian Wittig<\/p>\n<p>Channel Design: Yves Thimian<\/p>\n<p>Contains licensed material by getty images<br \/>\nMaps: MapTiler\/OpenStreetMap Contributors &#038; GEOlayers3<br \/>\nAll rights reserved &#8211; Real Time History GmbH 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-22-at-17-22-06-Why-Did-The-First-World-War-Break-Out-July-Crisis-1914-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-22-at-17-22-06-Why-Did-The-First-World-War-Break-Out-July-Crisis-1914-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-75147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-22-at-17-22-06-Why-Did-The-First-World-War-Break-Out-July-Crisis-1914-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-22-at-17-22-06-Why-Did-The-First-World-War-Break-Out-July-Crisis-1914-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-22-at-17-22-06-Why-Did-The-First-World-War-Break-Out-July-Crisis-1914-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-22-at-17-22-06-Why-Did-The-First-World-War-Break-Out-July-Crisis-1914-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[My 2014 series on &#8220;The Origins of World War I&#8221; can be read here. 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