WORLD WAR I: HOW THE GREAT WAR BEGAN | PART 1 | FULL DOCUMENTARY

WORLD WAR I: HOW THE GREAT WAR BEGAN | PART 1 | FULL DOCUMENTARY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ One bullet. One assassination. Twenty million lives lost. Four empires destroyed. The world forever changed. This is the story of how a wrong turn on a Sarajevo street led to the most devastating war the world had ever seen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 - Scene 1: The Hook — One Bullet, 20 Million Dead 0:26 - Scene 2: The Unseen Tensions (1871-1914) 1:35 - Scene 3: The Alliance Trap 2:29 - Scene 4: The Assassination — June 28, 1914 3:57 - Scene 5: The July Crisis 5:28 - Scene 6: The Dominoes Fall 6:52 - Conclusion & Part 2 Preview ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 KEY EVENTS COVERED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗓️ 1871 — Germany unified after defeating France 🗓️ 1879-1907 — Alliance systems divide Europe 🗓️ June 28, 1914 — Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated 🗓️ July 5, 1914 — Germany gives Austria "Blank Cheque" 🗓️ July 23, 1914 — Austria issues ultimatum to Serbia 🗓️ July 28, 1914 — Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia 🗓️ August 1, 1914 — Germany declares war on Russia 🗓️ August 3, 1914 — Germany declares war on France 🗓️ August 4, 1914 — Britain declares war on Germany ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📜 SOURCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 Canadian War Museum 🇺🇸 Oklahoma Historical Society 📚 Wikipedia (Causes of World War I) 📚 Wikipedia (World War I) 📚 Wikipedia (Assassination of Franz Ferdinand) 📰 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📜 IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This documentary is based on historical records and academic sources. Content is educational. This is a transformative work protected under fair use. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 FOLLOW @EchozOfTime FOR PART 2 👇 COMMENT: Could World War I have been prevented? #WorldWarI #WWI #History #GreatWar #ArchdukeFranzFerdinand #Sarajevo #JulyCrisis #Documentary #EchozOfTime