About this episode
The episode discusses how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to the outbreak of World War I, highlighting the underlying factors that contributed to the conflict.
Somehow, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, throws the entire world into war. Of course, it was not an accident. The alliance systems, the militarism, the nationalism, all of it conspires to doom Europe to its own destruction. But it all starts with two bullets fired by a nineteen-year-old assassin. Support The Show
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Host: Adam Walsh
Topics covered
- World War I
- assassination
- European history
- nationalism
- militarism
Keywords
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- assassination
- World War I
- Sarajevo
- nationalism
- militarism
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Places: Sarajevo
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