In light of the ongoing events that have been wracking Europe's home front, have the people of the nation ever stopped to consider what the most inlaid cause for Europe's suffering is? There is the obvious: starvation, rivalry between countries, poor leadership, disease. But beneath all that, somewhere near the very beginning of all united countries and all national rivalry, lie two of the most fundamental and obscurely destructive forces in the world: liberalism and, most of all, nationalism. The negative effects that these two seemingly beneficial factors have on Europe, as a whole and as each separate country forged together despite their differences into one continent, are not to keep their ugly heads unreared. Over the recent decades, Europe has faced hardship after hardship, but as a nation has failed to pinpoint the concealed causes. In dissection of the first World War, it is possible to identify...