War I. With the new inventions of the theatre and automobiles‚ Europe was on an upswing. That all ended on June 18‚ 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ the heir to the Austria-Hungary throne. Gavrilo Princip‚ a student‚ shot and killed the Archduke. Princip was a member of Young Bosnia‚ a group that wanted the unification of the South Slavs‚ and independence from Austria-Hungary. On July 23‚ 1914‚ Serbia was sent a list of ultimatums‚ some so extreme that the Serbs rejected
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the conflict as well. The immediate origins of the war‚ however‚ lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the 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.[1] The crisis came after a long and difficult series of diplomatic clashes between the Great Powers (Italy‚ France‚ Germany‚ the British Empire‚ the Austria-Hungarian Empire and Russia) over European and colonial issues
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World War 1 was a war that started off just because of the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife‚ beneficiary to the Austro-Hungarian throne in Sarajevo on June 28th‚ 1914 by Gavrilo Princip whom was one of a gathering of six professional killers (one Bosniak and five Serbs). The Black Hand (A Siberian patriot mystery society) carelessly set in a train of arrangement of occasions that inevitably prompt the world’s first worldwide war; "One thing lead to an alternate." After years of engaging
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conflict as well. However‚ the immediate origins of the war 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
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Britain‚ Russia -Triple alliance: Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ Italy‚ Later on Ottoman Empire *How it all began (June 1914) -Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His wife Sophie visited Sarajevo‚ Bosina -Heir to the Austrian throne -They were shot by Gavrilo Princip A serbian nationalist -Then Austria-Hungary placed a series of harsh demands on Serbia which the Serbians could not meet & WHen they did not‚ Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia → Serbia was under Russian protection -So Russia declared war
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Causes of World War 1 World War 1 started in 1914 and ended in 1918. The Central Powers which include Germany‚ Bulgaria‚ and Austria-Hungary fought against the Allied powers‚ Great Britain‚ Russia‚ Italy‚ France‚ Romania‚ the United States‚ and Japan. Before World War 1‚ fighting in war was seen as an honorable act. Every boy and man wanted to serve in war because they wanted to serve the country they love‚ but World War 1 changed all of that. The new military technologies and the horrors of trench
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1) Which three empires met at the Balkans? Russia‚ Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) 2) How did Emperor Franz Joseph rule the Hasburg Empire? Franz Joseph was the emperor of Austria and the king of Hungary. He was the uncle of Franz Ferdinand and ruled for 66 years. During his reign‚ Franz Joseph resisted any type of change‚ hated political reform and was referred to as the ‘last European monarch of the old school’. 3) How was the Hasburg Empire regarded internationally? The
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February 21-November 26‚ 1916. It was an unsuccessful German offensive to take the west‚ and was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. The total casualties were estimated to be 542‚000 French and 434‚000 Germans. On June 28‚ 1914‚ Gavrilo Princip‚ a Bosnian Serb nationalist sparked the beginning the first World War. On this day he shot Franz Ferdinand (Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne) to death in his car in Sarajevo‚ Bosnia and Herzegovina. Soon after this‚
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an unstable empire made of 11 different countries and many Serbians living inside it wanted to leave and join Serbia. Serbia doubled in size during the First and Second Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and on 28th June 1914‚ the Black Hand Gang led by Gavrilo Princip attempted to kill the Austria-Hungarian heir. Despite it not going quite according to plan‚ the Archduke was still killed and a month later‚ Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Because Russia was allied with Serbia‚ they also joined the war
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million Europeans‚ were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. The immediate trigger for war was the 28 June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria‚ heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary‚ by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. This set off a diplomatic crisis when Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia‚ and international alliances formed over the previous decades were invoked. Within weeks‚ the major powers were at war and the conflict
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