Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassination

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the cause of WW1. If Franz Ferdinand wasn’t assassinated we wouldn’t have entered WW1.

There were many tragedies from the Great War that is WW1. A few things people wouldn’t think about is the Woman’s Rights, equal rights with the “colored”, and population problems that will accrue from WW1 never happening. Woman wanted to work or themselves at the time but it was a law that only men worked and woman stay home. Also there weren’t any equal rights for the “colored” to do anything that others were able to do. “Colored” were always separated for everyone else and without this war it would probably be the same today. At this time US wasn’t known as a powerful country and tend to

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