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    In the 28th of June, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, next in line to the throne of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Sarajevo. Bosnia-Herzegovina during a touring session, within the city by a Black Hand Assassin, Gavrilo Princip. Franz Ferdinand was an advocate of increased federalism and widely believed to favor tribalism, under which Austria-Hungary would be reorganized by combining the Slavic lands within the Austro-Hungarian empire into a third crown. Supportive of this idealism, the…

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    The event that I will speak on are the assignation of Archduke Ferdinand. The murder of Archduke Ferdinand was one of the main trigger events of world war one. The group that killed the archduke was called the Black Hand this was a group of Siberian rebels they then tried to kill the archduke with a bomb but failed then they then later…

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    World War 1 began 1939 and ended 1945. The countries involved were Germany, Australia, Italy, Japan, Britain, France, Canada, New Zealand, India, China, USA, and the Soviet Union. Australia, Britain, France, Canada, New Zealand, India, China, USA, Soviet Union all won the war. The United States entered 1941. The war began because people wanted to take over other countries as their own. World War 2 began in 1914 and ended in 1918. The reason this war started is because people wanted more land…

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    Western Front included Serbia, Russia, France, Belgium and the British Empire all of which fought against the Ottoman Empire, Germany and Austria-Hungary. One of the main causes of the First World War was due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie on June 28th 1914. He was killed by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian member of the Black Hand. 5533 ANZAC casualties happened 27 hours after the first invasion of the German trenches. A total of 45,000 deaths…

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    Intro: In this essay I am going to be talking about what caused war to happen. In general world one was a big impact that caused world war to happen what I mean by that is that the intense anger over the treaty of Versailles, Germany was angry because of their loses and they had to endure as a results of the treaty. Also the failure of the many peace efforts that occurred after World War One caused world war 2. The other thing that caused World War Two to happen was the rise of fascism, Fascism…

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    There are multiple causes that sparked the beginning of the First World War. The main four are considered to be: militarism, alliances, nationalism, and imperialism. WWI was a direct result of these causes, but the murder of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife initiated the beginning of the war. World War I took place between July 1914 and November 11, 1918. At the end of the war over 17 million people were killed including over 100,000 American troops. Militarism is a system that…

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    event in time that historians today still look upon. Although there were multiple causes of The Great War the major causes lead to this big chaos. The main underlying causes were alliances, imperialism, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. These main causes lead the road to the Great War that now remains in history but is still looked upon to this day. Allow this was a historical time in history a lot of other little tensions sparked this war as well. Alliances…

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    mass world wars throughout history. The first world war happened between July 1914 and November 1918. There were a couple of causes to why this war started, but the immediate cause of it would be because of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Although this was the immediate cause, other factors also came into play as to why the war began. These factors include: the alliances made during the war, imperialism, militarism and nationalism. When looking at it from a whole perspective,…

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    events that were major turning points in history are the outbreak of the bubanic plague and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. These events sparked major changes due to the number of people who were effected by the results of the events. The bubanic plague had devastating effects on the social and economic lifestyles of Europeans, while the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand had consequential effects on the major powers at the time. The bubanic plague devastated many aspects of…

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    Bosnia-Herzegovina and turn into a single unified Slav nation. However Austria-Hungary conquered Bosnia-Herzegovina to expand their borders. In retaliation, the Black Hand (secret organization based in Serbia) ordered the execution of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. Young Gavrilo Princip was the one who carried out the order. This act of retaliation was the final blow required for the pressure building inside Europe to explode. Due to the nationalistic pride of Austria-Hungary…

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