The assignation Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was the spark of WWI. He, and his wife, were killed by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo (the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Franz Ferdinand was assassinated not at the start, but right before WW1 happened, it was his death that started the Great War
Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
King Ferdinand
Not the immediate cause - it had been a long-running debate. The immediate cause was Lincoln's election victory on a ticket of no new slave-states.
The Immediate Cause was Beauregard firing on Fort Sumter. The Intermediate Cause was the secession of the Confederate States. The Ultimate Cause was Slavery.
Japanese attack at Pearl Harbour. That's World War 2. The United States entered World War I after the Zimmermann note, which offered German aid for a Mexican invasion of the US, was intercepted, translated and sent to Woodrow Wilson by the British.
Well slavery was a big part of the southern secession.
Several things contributed to the start of the War Between the States. The most immediate cause was the South firing on Fort Sumter. The next direct cause was the secession of the southern states from the Union.
The main cause of world war 1 was all of the alliances nations made. It was also because Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a terrorist.
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife initiated the immediate series of events that led to World War I.
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife initiated the immediate series of events that led to World War I.
No one was assassinated in world war 2 If you meant world war 1 then Franz Ferdinand was assassinated
The Germans had been slowly building up their military after the fall of the Weimar Republic; their invasion of Poland in 1939 was probably the most immediate cause of the world war.
The German invasion of Poland in 1939.
The immediate cause of the first revolution in March 1917 was the disastrous impact of the First World War.
The attack on Pearl Harbor
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The most direct cause of World War 1 was that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were assassinated by a Serbian nationalist.
That was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
World War I had 4 long-term causes and one immediate cause. The assassination of the Austro-Hungarian archduke was the immediate cause, the reason war was justified enough to actually begin. The other four are the MAIN causes of the war, Miliatariam, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism.