Follow The Propagandist on Twitter   Donate to The Propagandist
Z Word  There is no unanimity among historians - and, in
particular, among those who can claim to be experts about the
origins of the First World War - about why and how the initial
limited conflict, for which the assassination of the Archduke
Franz Ferdinand served as a pretext, escalated into a war which
drew in combatants from more than one continent and led to the
deaths and maiming of millions of human beings.  There is
however a broad consensus about the factors which led to the
creation of the League of Nations and which included not only
the widespread suffering and devastation brought about by this
“war to end war”  but also the impossibility of re-establishing
the old diplomatic order, which partly resulted from the
destruction of many of the old empires.  Even if the United
States had not followed a policy of selective isolationism and
had become a fully fledged member of the League of Nations, it
can be convincingly argued that this