This assassination and the international reactions to it led to the outbreak of World War One. However, there are a number of wider causes and factors that contributed to the war. Some date back ...

BBC News Productions. Christopher Clark, Professor of History at Cambridge University, presents a five-part series on the outbreak of World War One. He explains the reasons for the onset of ...

(p. 1). Mombauer’s first chapter opens with the line “The debate about the causes of the First World War began even before the first shots had been fired,” (p. 14) and proceeds to sift through all of ...

One hundred years ago today, the First World War ended in Europe. The Armistice took effect at eleven o’clock in the morning — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month ...

Children's programming and BBC Learning initiatives marking the centenary of World War One. CBBC Multi-award-winning ... try to explain the not-so-simple reasons for Britain joining the war.