Crash Course: World History S2E10 — Who Started World War I: Crash Course World History 210

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Crash Course: World History•Season 2•Episode 10

Who Started World War I: Crash Course World History 210

8.0/10 · 8 votesSep 20, 201410 min

Ranked #8 of 24 in Season 2•+0.2 vs season avg

John Green teaches you WHY World War I started. Or tries to anyway. With this kind of thing, it's kind of hard to assign blame to any one of the nations involved. Did the fault lie with Austria-Hungary? Germany? Russia? Julius Caesar? One thing we

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Episode Summary

"Who Started World War I: Crash Course World History 210" is episode 10 of Crash Course: World History season 2. It scored 8.0/10 from 8 votes, ranking #8 of 24 episodes this season (season average 7.8). It aired on September 20, 2014.

Next: E11 · The End of Civilization (In the Bronze Age): Crash Course World History 211 Best of Season 2