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Talking place against a backdrop of escalating tensions in the Balknans, the assasination set off a chain of events that would lead to the start of world war I barely one month later.
The assassination (political murder) of Archduke Franz Ferdinand lead to the start of WW I.
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The assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-hungary. He was killed by Gavrillo Princip, a slavic nationalist in Sarahevo, Bosnia in 1914. Austria-Hungary used this as an excuse to invade Bosnia.
simply because the Archduke was shot by a Serbian terrorist. His assassination set in motion a chain of events that 37 days later would lead to the First World War.
Talking place against a backdrop of escalating tensions in the Balknans, the assasination set off a chain of events that would lead to the start of world war I barely one month later.
The assassination (political murder) of Archduke Franz Ferdinand lead to the start of WW I.
his assasination lead to austro-hungarian empire declaring war on serbia. the allied powers stood with serbia in the war and the central powers (germany) austro-hungary. causing world war 1.
These were the two bullets that were fired to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His death sparked World War I.
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria in 1914 was the murder, Serbia and Austria declared war, and the Great War or WWI was the result.
Many conditions for war had been stacking up over the previous century. The final straw that lead to war was the July, 1914 assassinations of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1914. Despite warnings, he and his wife chose to travel to Sarajevo. The assassinations were politically motivated by the Black Hand to form the country of Yugoslavia from the southern provinces of Austria-Hungary. However, it also started WWI.
The ruler of the Austrio-Hungarian Empire during WWI was Franz Joseph I, his son, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assiasinated by a Serbian nationalists Society,the mans last name was Princip; and thus lead to the begining of WWI.at first it was Franz Josef until his death in 1916
(Archduke Ferdinand). The first world war.
major event that happened during the world war 1 in Sweden?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (and his wife) at Sarajevo in 1914 led most of the world into war because of one fundamental reason: the alliance system. Due to the many complex alliances that had been arranged among European nations in the years prior, war broke out on a much larger scale than it would have otherwise.
It was started out of outrage over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie at the hands of Serbian nationalist secret society known as the 'Black Hand" isn't entirely correct.