How did nationalism lead to the Great War

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Carsen Forbes

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14 October, 21:12

How did nationalism lead to the Great War

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These groups hoped to drive Austria-Hungary from the Balkans and establish a 'Greater Serbia', a unified state for all Slavic people. It was this pan-Slavic nationalism that inspired the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914, an event that led directly to the outbreak of World War I.