The question of why the war began is thus an important one but it is also immensely difficult, if not impossible, to answer. It may be said, with pardonable exaggeration, that 'modern consciousness', at least for Westerners, began in 1914. It also changed the way we perceive the world. Indeed some of the major features of European history between the wars - like Soviet communism, the rise of Fascism and Nazism, and even the depression of the 1930s - are unthinkable apart from the legacy of the war. Walter Carruthers Sellar ( 1898 June 11, 1951) and Robert Julian Yeatman ( 1898 July 13, 1968) were British humourists who wrote for Punch, and are best known for their book 1066 and All That ( 1930, ISBN 0413772705 ), a tongue-in-cheek guide to 'all the history you can remember'. The Great War not only killed about nine million people and ended Europe's supremacy in the world (so that, according to Sellar and Yeatman, America became 'top nation' and history came to a full stop) it also transformed the political map of Europe. Also, we have to be concerned with big issues and really formative events - like the 1914-18 war. Sellar was educated at Fettes College where he was Head Boy. Historians have always been primarily concerned with change and thus with the causes of change. Walter Carruthers Sellar ( 1898 June 11, 1951) and Robert Julian Yeatman ( 1898 July 13, 1968) were British humourists who wrote for Punch, and are best known for their book 1066 and All That ( 1930, ISBN 0413772705 ), a tongue-in-cheek guide to 'all the history you can remember'. What caused the First World War? This is a perfectly legitimate historical question.
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