Following the Franz Ferdinand assassination, Austria-Hungary would have some decisions to make regarding Serbia. Would they respond with diplomacy? Or a call to arms? I also take a closer look at Austria-Hungary's responsibility in the outbreak of the First World War.Citations and Links -Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to War in 1914 (New York: HarperCollins, 2012)John W. Langdon, "Emerging from Fischer's Shadow: Recent Examinations of the Crisis of July 1914," The History Teacher 20, no. 1 (November, 1986), 63-86Jack S. Levy, "Preferences, Constraints, and Choices in July 1914," International Security 15, no. 3 (Winter 1990/1991), 151-186Sean McMeekin, July 1914: Countdown to War (New York: Basic Books, 2013)Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., "Austria-Hungary Opts for War," in Essays on World War I: Origins and Prisoners of War, eds. Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. and Peter Pastor (Social Science Monographs, Columbia University Press, 1983), 9-36Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., "Austria and the Origins of the Great War: A Selective Historiographical Survey," in 1914: Austria Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I eds. Gunter Bischof, Ferdinand Karlhofer and Samuel R. Williamson (University of New Orleans Press, 2014), 21-33Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., "The Origins of World War I," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18, no. 4 (Spring 1988), 795-818Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. and Ernest R. May, "An Identity of Opinion: Historians and July 1914," The Journal of Modern History 79 (June 2007), 335-387https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/july_crisis_1914Contact the show -Twitter: @dnoellEmail: dvdnoell@gmail.com

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