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No. The First World War began after Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo.

However, the Sudetenland ("South Eastern Land") was significant in the run-up to WWII.

Hitler's Nazi troops marched into the Sudetenland and annexed it for Germany, on the pretext that a large number of the population in the occupied territory was German-speaking.

Hitler then went on to annex the whole of Czechoslovakia. The UK PM, Chamberlain, had an appeasement policy and he believed that Hitler would have no further territorial ambitions. But of course, in September 1939, Hitler went on to invade Poland; and so Britain then declared war on Germany.

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