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The First World War, otherwise known was the Great War took place between the 28th of August 1914, when Austria – Hungary declared war on Serbia, and the 11th of November 1918, when Germany signed the armistice. Great is certainly an apt adjective to use when describing World War One. This was a war that directly resulted in the death of 9 Million people, rendered countless miles of land uninhabitable and brought about the ultimate destruction of one of the world’s greatest powers of the last five hundred years, Austria Hungary. The question must be asked then what factors brought about the Great War, or essentially what caused it to happen. At the Paris Conference in 1919 the victorious allies determined that the blame for starting the war lay with Germany, but for many historians this judgment is unsatisfactory. A considerable number of historians have, in trying to interpret the causes of the Great War, looked beyond this hasty decision and have tried to come up with reasonable hypothesis as to what caused some of the then greatest powers on earth to go to bloody war.
The most popular theory that has been put forward by historians to explain the causes of the Great War is that the war came about as a result of the political tension that had built up in Europe in the years before the war. It has been proposed that this tension was caused by a serious of factors, or as James Joll, Professor of International History at the University of London, terms them, ‘elements’, and it is therefore difficult to blame the one country for the causation of the war.
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