WEEK 5 ASSIGNMENT CASE STUDY 2 This study source was downloaded by 100000883055406 from CourseHero.com on 06-26-2024 13:22:28 GMT -05:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/96333204/Week-5-Assignment-Case-Studydocx/ Week 5 Assignment Case Study Option 3: World War I World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War was an international conflict that occurred between 1914 – 18, embroiling most of the European nations, Russia, the United States, the Middle East as well as other regions (Royde-Smith & Showalter, 2020). At one end of the war were the Central Powers that mainly included Germany, Turkey, and AustriaHungary. On the other end of the war were the Allied Powers that included Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Japan, and the United States, which joined the war in 1917. The two sides fought over several issues that began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and ended with the defeat of the central powers and the death of more than 16 million people (History.com, 2021). The Origins of the World War I World War I began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, on June 28, 1914 (Royde-Smith & Showalter, 2020). However, the exact causes of the war have caused raging debate among historians and policymakers with some studies arguing on the perspective of a European-centered changing distribution of power while others proposed that the war resu