The Roots of the Cold War

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This paper examines how there are historians who say the seeds of the Cold War, the long struggle of wills, ideology, plus brutal military might being brandished to the loyal allies of both Cold War antagonists, the West and Russia / Soviet Union, were created by the not-so-perfect peace that ended WWI. It also explores other claims that say the Cold War seeds were planted in 1914, when the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was assassinated. It looks at the background history of these events and attempts to make a connection between what happened and the later conflict between East and West.

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"However, although new maps were drawn " and the Austro-Hungarian empire became fragmented, with Serbia and Bosnia becoming part of Yugoslavia " in the bigger picture, guns were also drawn. Indeed, one month following Franz Ferdinand's murder, Austria declared war on Serbia after Serbia had rejected an unreasonable and impossible set of conditions in an Austrian ultimatum. The announcement of Austria's war declaration prompted Czar Nicholas II to ally his Russian nation with Serbia (fellow Slavs). Two days after Russia's declaration of support for Serbia, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm urged Nicholas to recall his troops."

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