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World War I defined rest of 20th Century
By Tom Emery
It was called the “Great War” and the “war to end all wars.” Unfortunately for mankind, there were even greater, and more deadly, wars to come.
Though overshadowed by the Second World War today, the effects of the first world conflict defined the remainder of the twentieth century. The war ostensibly began when Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 by a nineteen-year-old Serbian liberator named Gavrilo Princip.
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