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

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