UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2012 · Q6(b) · 30 marks
“Any single explanation for the outbreak of the First World War likely to be too simple. An amalgam of factors intellectual, social, economic as well as political and diplomatic contributed to this horrifying conflict of monumental propositions.” – Explain.
- Chapter
- World Wars
- Topic
- First World War: Causes and Character
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