Was the First World War Inevitable?

In this essay, I aim to discover if WWI was stoppable or not. There is one rule which will make this easy to discover: if a trigger set it off, then the opening of the war was entirely dependent on that single thing. However, if the war began because of a trend, then the war began because this trend had been going on so long that it had reached boiling point, and something would have to be done. In this essay, I will be looking at several trends and triggers, and at the e...