This assassination and the international reactions to it led to the outbreak of World War One. However, there are a number of wider causes and factors that contributed to the war. Some date back ...

With the Netherlands half a world away and devastated by war, the British stepped in to help. Few Anglophones know either Dutch or Indonesian, and that’s likely one reason we know far less about ...

BBC News Productions. Christopher Clark, Professor of History at Cambridge University, presents a five-part series on the outbreak of World War One. He explains the reasons for the onset of ...

The late American historian Paul Schroeder’s interpretation of the causes of World War I focuses on the breakdown of a ...