... War I As with all international conflicts, there can be no easy answer to questions of blame or guilt. Historians continue to debate the causes of World War I nearly a century after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand; the event that most agree was the spark which ignited the flames of war. Reaching back to the years before Ferdinand's assassination, a case could be made that growing nationalism, militarism, ... and the development of an intricate system of alliances were factors that helped bring Europe to the threshold of war. However, this essay will attempt to focus on th...

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