ons by the Austria Hungarian Empire in relation to the Balkan states, (2) the conflicting goals of the two major international alliances in Europe in 1914, and (3) the national goal of Germany to become the leader of a Middle European political sphere.
Historical investigation and analysis were employed extensively in the conduct of this study. When considered in the context of research, "history may be defined as an integrated narrative or description of past events or facts, written in the spirit of critical inquiry, to find the whole truth and report it The principal activities involved in historical inquiry are (1) the identification and isolation of the problem, (2) the accumulation and classification of source materials, (3) the organization of data to fit patterns, and (4) the forming of conclusions.
The data required for this study were obtained from both secondary sources. Traditionally, in many areas of academic research, primary data refers
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