History Summarized: 1900 – The World before the War

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The First World War was Europe’s most destructive single event since the Black Death, so uh… why on earth did they do it on purpose? Let’s unpack the state of affairs at the turn of the 1900s to understand the World Before the War and see how it could only lead to conflict.

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SOURCES & Further Reading:
“Smithsonian World War 1: The Definitive Visual History” published by DK & Penguin Random House, edited by Hugo Wilkinson
“Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War” by Max Hastings
“Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century” by Alistair Horne
Great Courses lecture series “World War I: The ‘Great War’”, lectures 1 through 4, “The Century’s Initial Catastrophe”, “Europe in 1914”, “Towards Crisis in Politics and Culture” and “Causes of the War and the July Crisis, 1914”, by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
Great Courses lecture series “The African Experience from Lucy to Nelson Mandela” lecture 20 “European Conquest and African Resistance” by Kenneth P. Vickery

MUSIC:
“There Is Only War” from Space Marine II OST by Nima Fakhrara and Steve Molitz
“The Reliquary” from Stray Gods OST by Austin Wintory
“On Father’s Watch” from Assassin’s Creed Unity OST by Chris Tilton
“Follow My Lead” from Assassin’s Creed Unity OST by Chris Tilton
“48 Hours” from M. Son of the Century OST by Tom Rowlands

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