Causes Of The Cold War

Two bullets were fired on a Bosnian city street on a sunny June morning in 1914. The gun that fired these bullets will set in motion a series of events that shaped the world we live in today. World War One, World War Two, the Cold War all come from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. The victims were the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife Sophie. They were returning from an official visit to City Hall. The assassin, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip was a Serbian nationalist. He thought the death of the Archduke was going free his people to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But how could the death of one person cause the biggest wars of the last 100 years?

The Austrian-Hungarian empire in central Europe
Alliances were being formed, Germany with Russia, Austria with Germany, Russia with Serbia, everything was building up and it was about to explode. When Franz Ferdinand was assassinated it was the last straw. The Austrian-Hungarian empire took advantage of this horrible event to go to war. They blamed the assassination on the Serbs. They made a big list of demands that they couldn’t comply, to have an excuse to go to war. The Serbs were backed up by Russia; this made the tensions even worse. At the same time this was happening, the German prime minister Otto Bon Bismarck was fired by the Kaiser Wilhelm. Kaiser Wilhelm didn’t know what he was doing and getting into when he had undone the alliance with Russia. Russia was furious, so to get back at Germany, they went with France. The powers were divided; Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, against Russia, France, and Great Britain. It was clear what side was going to win. “This war embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, and later on the United” (Benson, 2018). Eventually, the Germans lose against the great powers and it was held back as the responsible for the
Germany was the country with the most repercussions from the world war, and this caused for the German people to hold resentment. Hitler took advantage of this, and this helped to increase the power of the Nazi party. Hitler went for the presidential election of 1932 and loose, then he achieved his goals when he was appointed chancellor on 30 January 1933. Hitler slowly rose to power, until he was the head of state and nobody could do anything about all the power he had. Hitler managed to blame the Jews for all of Germany’s problems September 1, 1939, Warsaw, Poland, Hitler attacked the important capital of the Eastern European country, and with this act starting World War II (Scott, 2018). “This led France and Britain, to declare war on Nazi Germany”. “Everything from there on was massive destruction for European countries” (Scott, 2018). 6 million Jews were victims of this horrifying