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Studied WW1 in school but never went hard on the July Crisis that started it.

Read up on it now and feeling like the Treaty of Versailles was a lot less unfair than I previously thought.

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Also surprised by how much Britain was the only adult in the room. They tried really quite hard to prevent the catastrophe.
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Serbia was like, “look, Austria. We’ll give you literally everything you’re asking for.” Britain was like, “let’s talk this out guys”. Austria was like, “hmm, maybe”. Germany was like “LEROY JENKINS! Btw, invading Luxembourg. Lol!”
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Ben Curthoys
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The Rest Is History did a good series on the build up, if you like that sort of thing.
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@goatsarah Starts Episode 465 with a 4 parter on the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

therestishistory.com/465-the-m…

followed by 6 episodes on "The Road to War"


465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1) - The Rest is History

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the world’s greatest empires, in June 1914, set in motion a series of events that would culminate in the First World War, where more than 15 million people would lose their lives.
Bryan Dooley (The Rest is History)
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Llwynog
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Bertrand Russell said: if Britain hadn't become involved, the war would have been short, Germany would have won and WWII would never have happened.
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George Potter
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it's also worth comparing the Treaty of Versailles to the treaty the Germans forced on France a generation earlier after the Franco-Prussian War. Modest losses of land, military restrictions, blame for the war, harsh reparations, etc - Versailles was just the Germans receiving what they'd previously dished out.
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