Causes Of The Assassination Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

In Europe, there was a lot of tension between countries in the early 1900’s. The British submarine, The Lusitania, had recently been sunk by German submarines and the European powers were not at ease. Then, on June 28, 1914, the archduke of Austria-Hungary Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Archduke Franz Ferdinand should not have been assassinated because his assassination caused World War I and lead to World War II even though some say both wars were not his fault.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination was a very direct cause of World War I. This event really sparked war like thoughts throughout Europe(Kent(8). Once he was murdered a deadly chain reaction of countries finding allies was set off. This chain reaction caused Europe to become divided(Kent(16). The whole continent was pulled apart in the process of finding allies and it ended the seemingly good relationships that the countries had with each other(Duffy(2009). This assassination started the fighting that not too soon later the rest of the world had joined
It persecuted and almost lead some religious groups to extinction. At the end of World War I, the Treaty of Versailles was formed. This treaty just about blamed Europe for the whole war and made them pay for the damage(Hickman(2016). It resulted in Germany becoming very angry, which led to them seeking revenge. But none of this could have happened without World War I. Historian Kennedy Hickman says that “Many seeds of World War II in Europe were sown by the treaty of Versailles that ended World War I.” Without the Great War the treaty would not even have been formed so the next world war could not have happened without the first one. If Archduke Franz Ferdinand had lived World War I could have been avoided and Germany would not have felt the need to cause another one(Rosenfeld(2014). The facts are inevitable, but some still believe that the archduke did not cause both