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The triggering event by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. The killers escaped into Serbia. The Austria police entered Serbia against Serbian law and declared war.

The events of the following few days drew in a dozen nations as mutual defense pacts, some of them secret, and clumsily drawn war plans designed decades earlier caused a spiral of out of control events.

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