World War I (WWI)

chemical warfare

mustache

Adolf Hitler

trivia

gas mask

grandfather

World War III

being literal

is a war fought for the benefit of capitalists.

Eric Hobsbawn argued that World War One was a war fought for the benefit of capitalists;

is often argued to have been an inadvertent war primarily caused by a security dilemma or a spiral.

Almost a century after WWI, scholars are still debating the nature of the causes of this war. One school argues that WWI was "an inadvertent war" primarily caused by a security dilemma or a spiral, whereas another school argues that WWI was "an inevitable war" that was mostly caused by the belligerence among the states, especially Germany (for a recent exchange, see Lieber 2008; Snyder and Lieber 2008).

is often argued to have been an inevitable war that was mostly caused by the belligerence among the states, especially Germany.

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world war i (WWI)