Why Did World War 1 Start

World War 1 started for various reasons but, the three main causes were, the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, the rise of Nationalism, and the building up of the military and alliances. The war started in 1914, there are many arguments according to the reasons on how the war actually started but, most historians believed it to be the assassination. Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June 28th, 1914, the killing took place in Sarajevo by a member from a group called the “Black Hand Secret Society” this society included one Bosniak but five Serbians. The assassin was named Gavrilo Princip. He shot Franz near a sandwich shop so historians believed that he was buying a sandwich. The original plan was the 6 men were to line up and as Franz and his beloved wife were being escorted in a car down the street they would one by one try to kill him. The first man failed as he didn’t have enough courage to do it because he could not see an opening to throw the grenade at the couple. The second man failed because he forgot that there was a 10 second delay, and it didn’t explode so he drank his share of the cyanide they had agreed to drink just in case they failed. He then jumped into the river to make sure he was dead. His cyanide was old so it only made him throw up,
Princip knew he couldn’t try to kill the Archduke now that one of his colleague’s failed. He and his