How Nicky and Willy could have prevented World War I - The Washington Post - 0 views
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One hundred years ago this week, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany exchanged a series of telegrams to try to stop the rush to a war that neither of them wanted. They signed their notes “Nicky” and “Willy.”
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Yet only three days after the tsar and kaiser’s initial exchange, Germany declared war on Russia, and World War I was underway.
