Do you think there was any way in which World War I could have been avoided? Consider that Franz Ferdinand was already assassinated, and there was nothing you could do to stop that. Would you have been a leader that was trying to find peace and talking to other world leaders, so no blood was shed; or do you think that the world was so far gone in greed and old monarchies that a change was needed regardless? If you pick the peace route, tell us why and tell me how you would have tried to achieve that. On the opposite side, if you were ready and prepared for war, why? What would your strategy have been? Would you sit back and let the war come to you, or would you have sent troops to the front immediately to try and end it quickly?

Do you think there was any way in which World War I could have been avoided? Consider that Franz Ferdinand was already assassinated, and there was nothing you could do to stop that. Would you have been a leader that was trying to find peace and talking to other world leaders, so no blood was shed; or do you think that the world was so far gone in greed and old monarchies that a change was needed regardless? If you pick the peace route, tell us why and tell me how you would have tried to achieve that. On the opposite side, if you were ready and prepared for war, why? What would your strategy have been? Would you sit back and let the war come to you, or would you have sent troops to the front immediately to try and end it quickly?