16. The Coming of the Great War
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via PrejudiceNeutrino/YouTube_Channels · 86% confidenceRecorded Open Yale Courses lecture; a clear university treatment of a perennially debated question.
What you'll learn
The causes of the First World War: alliances, nationalism, militarism and the July Crisis of 1914.
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Part of European Civiliization (1648-1945) with John Merriman
Go deeper
- The Guns of August, Barbara TuchmanHow the war began
- The First World War, John KeeganA clear one-volume military history of the war
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