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“Why did World War 1 start?”
The web of militarized alliances and imperial rivalries among European powers fostered a fragile balance, making the continent prone to conflict. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand acted as the catalyst, triggering the July Crisis and the rapid escalation into World War I.
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By 1914, this factor produced a volatile geopolitical environment in Europe. Mutual distrust, military preparedness, and rigid alliance commitments turned a regional assassination into a continent-wide war, ensuring localized conflicts expanded into a general war involving all major powers.
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