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The rivalries between the great powers in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were deeply rooted in political, economic, and strategic competition, and these rivalries created a volatile atmosphere that eventually erupted into the First World War. The system of alliances, imperialist ambitions, arms races, and nationalist aspirations combined to turn Europe into a battleground where suspicion and hostility became the norm. These conditions meant that even a relatively minor crisis, such as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, could ignite a continent-wide war. One of the central elements in the rivalries was the division of Europe into competing alliance systems. Germany, after its unification in 1871, quickly became a dominant continental power under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck. Initially, Bismarck sought to maintain ____ _____ ___ __________ __________ ___ ____ _____ _____.
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