Round 6: Tossup 18

Fritz Fischer’s interpretation of this conflict has been contrasted with that of Christopher Clark’s book The Sleepwalkers, whose narrative (15[1])begins with the murder of Alexander I in the May Coup. A First Lord of the Admiralty who resigned (-5[1])during this conflict following a disastrous campaign (15[1])later wrote The World Crisis about (15[1])it. Barbara Tuchman’s The (*) Guns of August describes the beginning of this conflict (10[1]-5[1])in the July Crisis, as well as the failure of the Schlieffen Plan, in which (10[1])German troops (10[2])traveled through neutral Belgium. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this conflict sparked by Gavrilo Princip’s (10[2])assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. (10[1])■END■ (10[3])

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