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This 3 page paper discusses some of the assumptions as well as the extraordinary mood in Europe before WWI. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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excuse to start. This paper considers what James Joll said about assumptions and the part they played in the conflict; which of the great powers might most easily have stopped
the war; and how Henry James (the novelist) and Norman Angell would explain the "mood of 1914." Discussion In his fabulous book The Civil War: A Narrative History, Shelby Foote
has a chapter entitled "The Thing Gets Under Way," and the title speaks volumes about the mood of Americans just before the Civil War began. It was as if there
was some sort of tacit agreement that there was going to be a war, it just needed the igniting spark to get it rolling. Much the same thing can be
said about Europe in 1914; everyone knew war was coming and it seemed easier to fight it than try to avoid it. Europeans belief in the inevitability of war
may have been fueled by the uneasiness of government officials. In particular, Waller notes the "internal tensions within the Hapsburg empire had long been recognized as one of the forces
leading to war" (1990, p. 116). Britain and France, however, did not seem to see war as a solution to their internal problems but preferred diplomacy, and Germany and Russia
were somewhere between the two extremes (Waller ). James Joll, in observing all this, noted that both the "internal causes approach" and the diplomatic one relied on the same essential
viewpoint, which is that "politicians and officials make decisions based upon calculation, whether of national interest or of the long-term security of a ruling group" (Waller, 1990, p. 119). Joll
gave a lecture in 1968 at the London School of Economics titled "1914: The Unspoken Assumptions" and laid out his thesis of the causes of the war; namely that
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