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Music Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War episode to The War

to end all wars.

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On June 28, 1914, in the city of Sarajevo, the Austro-Hungarian Archduke, Franz Ferdinand,

the heir to the Habsburg throne was assassinated, an event that would trigger the chain of events

that would lead to a war, and not just a war, the largest war in human history.

The conflict we know today as the First World War would spiral out of its Balkan origins

and turn into a war that few expected and nobody would have wanted. It would only end after

more than four years of fighting, during which millions of soldiers and civilians would be killed. Its body count does

not tell the whole story of the war, and the strain that it placed on the economies and societies

of nations around the world would cause a set of cascading changes that would alter the geopolitical

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