World War One would have occurred, even without the assassination of Heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
A. Tharoor, Ishaan. "The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Drumbeats of War." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 28 June 2014. Web. 04 Dec. 2015.
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The Article was written to inform readers about Ferdinand’s assassination details, effects, and how different countries are remembering the assassination as the 100 year anniversary passes. For example Bosnian Serbs unveiled a statue of Ferdinand’s killer. The author’s target audience is anyone interested in history since the assassination and the chain of events that followed affected all people in some way shape or form.
C. The author of the article is Ishaan Tharoor. He has been a foreign affairs writer at the …show more content…
The author does not explicitly state his feelings about the topic, but I believe Tharoor believes WW1 would have occurred without the assassination of the Archduke. McMeekin’s opinions about the effect of Ferdinand’s assassination and Education Secretary Gove’s opinion that the war was justified.
Tharoor includes a great deal of information describing the other forces that caused WW1 to occur. Including arms races and nationalism.
“But there were always larger forces in play. An imperialistic arms race in Europe had been building up in the years before. Ethnic nationalism in the margins of fraying empires asked difficult questions of the delicate "concert" of power that was in place on the continent. A reckoning, many argue, was inevitable.” – Ishaan Tharoor
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I will use this source to show how people felt about the assassination and other events that played a role in the start of WW1.
I will include that after the assassination people were more concerned about the who the next ruler of Austria-Hungary would be, not war. I will also include that nationalism and European arms race made a conflict
A. Tharoor, Ishaan. "The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Drumbeats of War." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 28 June 2014. Web. 04 Dec. 2015.
B.
The Article was written to inform readers about Ferdinand’s assassination details, effects, and how different countries are remembering the assassination as the 100 year anniversary passes. For example Bosnian Serbs unveiled a statue of Ferdinand’s killer. The author’s target audience is anyone interested in history since the assassination and the chain of events that followed affected all people in some way shape or form.
C. The author of the article is Ishaan Tharoor. He has been a foreign affairs writer at the …show more content…
The author does not explicitly state his feelings about the topic, but I believe Tharoor believes WW1 would have occurred without the assassination of the Archduke. McMeekin’s opinions about the effect of Ferdinand’s assassination and Education Secretary Gove’s opinion that the war was justified.
Tharoor includes a great deal of information describing the other forces that caused WW1 to occur. Including arms races and nationalism.
“But there were always larger forces in play. An imperialistic arms race in Europe had been building up in the years before. Ethnic nationalism in the margins of fraying empires asked difficult questions of the delicate "concert" of power that was in place on the continent. A reckoning, many argue, was inevitable.” – Ishaan Tharoor
E.
I will use this source to show how people felt about the assassination and other events that played a role in the start of WW1.
I will include that after the assassination people were more concerned about the who the next ruler of Austria-Hungary would be, not war. I will also include that nationalism and European arms race made a conflict