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Causes of World War I (view source)
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The '''causes of [[World War I]]''' remain hotly contested a century after the war itself concluded. Some authors emphasize the accidental character of the war as an unplanned response to the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne in July 1914. Others argue that the German government planned the war in advance and used the assassination as a pretext.
The '''causes of [[World War I]]''' remain hotly contested a century after the war itself concluded. Some authors emphasize the accidental character of the war as an unplanned response to the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne in June 1914. Others argue that the German government planned the war in advance and used the assassination as a pretext.
The classic case the World War I was an accidental war was made by Barbara Tuchman in ''Guns of August'' (1962). For an updated version of this view, see ''The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914'' (2014).
That Germany planned to go the war is the thesis of Fritz Fischer's ''Germany's Aims in the First World War'' (1968). Fischer's view were updated by David Fromkin in ''Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?'' (2004).
== Four "MAIN" causes==
== Four "MAIN" causes==