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As the "Great War" and the "War to End All Wars", World War I ushered in the twentieth century, beginning in a part of the world few Americans knew about and even fewer cared about. The conflagration that began with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary would go on to involve millions of people and countries from every continent on the globe. The results of this war would contribute to the rise of Hitler in Germany and lay the seeds of the next world war. Nor did the peace treaty to end this war bring any long term peace to the Balkans as we saw at the end of the twentieth century with the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
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