assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He and his wife had arranged to tour Sarajevo‚ Bosnia and Herzegovina. As the couple rode through Sarajevo on June 28‚ 1914‚ a man named Gavrilo Princip fired two shots at them.
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in 1914 and ended in 1918. WWI was known as the Great war before WW2 happened as it was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Also the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand has been blamed as the catalyst for WWI (Spielvogel Book). The major players in WWI were the Triple Entente- Britain‚ France‚ Russia and the Triple Alliance- Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ Italy. The reason for the assassination was because of Nationalism‚ Militarism and the Alliance that played the biggest part. Learning about WWI
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On one day back in June 1914‚ in Sarajevo‚ Bosnia‚ Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist called the Black Hand. This event immediately led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia and then‚ the alliances of both countries involved in. Within few days‚ the first World War broke out and lasted four years‚ caused millions of people died and wounded. However‚ the assassination of Ferdinand was not the only reason caused the worldwide war‚ it was just a blasting
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alliance‚ consisted of Germany‚ Austria-Hungary and Italy was formed for the military purpose of stopping French and Russian sentiment. Lastly‚ the Balkans alliance‚ was an economic agreement between Bulgaria and Serbia‚ two nations forming an alliance which reached across the former two opposing alliances. (ALLIANCES AS A CAUSE OF WORLD WAR I) These alliances played a huge role in World War I. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo of Austria-Hungary Alliance by the Serbian
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1 6/8 10 A World Crisis Worksheet 1. What is militarism? policy of military preparedness and building up weapons 2. How did the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand lead so many nations into war? Russia mobilizes army to help Austria-Hungary against Serbia‚ Germany thinks Russia is attacking Austria-Hungary‚ Declares war on Russia & then on their ally (France) then Britain declared war on Germany. 3. Why do you think that European nations were willing to go to
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it started off when the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. This was a global war centered in Europe which started July 28‚ 1914 and ended November 11‚ 1918. After World War I ended more than 9 million soldiers had been killed and about 21 million soldiers were wounded. The two nations that were effected most in the war were Germany and France. Also World War I marked the end of the four imperial dynasties which were Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ Russia‚ and Turkey
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lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the July Crisis of 1914‚ casus belli for which was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by Gavrilo Princip‚ an irredentist Serb. The crisis came after a long and difficult series of diplomatic clashes between the Great Powers (Italy‚ France‚ Germany‚ Great Britain‚ Austria-Hungarian Empire and Russia) over European and colonial issues in the decade before 1914 that had left tensions high. In turn these
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agreements which stated they would help each other in times of need‚ such as a war. These were known as alliances. In the case of a war‚ the countries in the same alliance would pledge to provide support and help defend each other. Germany was allied with Austria-Hungary and Italy before the war‚ forming the Triple Alliance‚ while Britain‚ France and Russia formed the Triple Entente. However‚ Italy left the Triple alliances just as the war was about to break out‚ and later joined the Triple entente as they
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War. Countries throughout Europe made defense agreements that would pull them into battle meaning‚ it one country was attacked‚ allied countries were bound to defend them. This was called alliances. At the start of World War One‚ Germany and Austria-Hungary allied and became became the Triple Alliance or Central Powers Alliance‚ when Italy joined in 1882. Fearful of that alliance; in 1894‚ France made an alliance with Russia‚ and in 1904 France also made an agreement with Britain. It was called
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Was the outbreak of the War in 1914 inevitable? It was called ‘the war to end all wars!’ It was anything but four years of trench warfare left millions dead and nothing resolved. How an assassin’s bullet in Bosnia triggered one of the world’s bloodiest wars the world has ever known and how alliances‚ imperialism and militarism take a huge part of how the war started. These big factors lead to the question was the outbreak of the war in 1914 inevitable. One of the fuses to the war was imperialism
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