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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
I'm sorry but that's wrong. It's now a fact that Germany can be considered the main culript of WW1. The Sarajevo killing was only a short term cause, look up for the Schliffen Plan, it was discovered only after the war by some brave German historians and it was the smoking gun, the evidence that the Germans had in mind a European continent invasion and they pushed themselves as much as thinking of a new order for African countries as well.
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True to a point, but not giving the whole picture. The first country to start mobilisation was Russia. Everything else went on automatic from that point on.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/willynicky.htm
These letters between the Tsar and the Kaiser should be of particlular interest in this regard.