Brian McCall, Instructor of History and Political Science-Interlochen Arts Academy discusses origins of the Great War with Beyond the Headlines host Jack Segal. How did the Great Powers of Europe let a minor crisis in the Balkans escalate into the catastrophe that was World War I? Each of the players of the Great War contributed to its deadly outbreak--Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Russia, Germany, France and Great Britain.

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