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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The common narrative of WW1 is that it indeed was started by a single person. Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand which most people agree was the inciting incident that caused WW1.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think it would be quite reductive to just blame the assassin. Sure, he was the one that created the spark that ignited the conflict, but it had been brewing for years, and we can't ignore the roles the heads of states were playing in starting the war.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Even high school history talks about how it was all building up to that event and the event alone wasn’t the cause