The Road to The Great War: Countdown to Armageddon (TRIH ep 469, part 1)
1914 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook begin a new mini-series tracing how the Sarajevo assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to the outbreak of the First World War. They challenge simplistic explanations — mass jingoism or the caricature of warmongering old men — and argue for attention to individuals operating in contingent circumstances and imperfect information.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1914
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)