| | Section 14: World War I and Cultural Anxiety /Shaping of the Modern World/Brooklyn College |
 | | Over the rest of the 20th century, the other parts of the world regained much of their economic importance vis-a-vis the west. |
| | Look at World War I, which was in fact not so much a World War as a European War in which European states destroyed much of their wealth, and undertook mutual atrocities that lead many to question the self-proclaimed "superiority" of the West. |
| | The immediate cause of World War I, was neither external imperialism, nor the Alliances of the major powers, but the problems of two dying empires. |
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