Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

On July 28th of the year of 1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, thus marking the official start of World War I. Soon after alliances brought other countries into the war including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, and Great Britain. Austria charged into Serbia, Germany attacked Belgium and France, and Russia attacked Germany and Austria. The United States attempted to stay neutral in the war. However, due to acts of aggression against the United States, the country joined the war in April

The event of World War I began with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This brought Austria-Hungary to declare war to Serbia in July 1914. Many other countries were later drawn into the war. These other countries being involved in treaties, obligated them to defend other nations. It was the first important war there had been in over forty years. Soldiers were utilizing new weapons and technology with old skills, which caused great destruction. Alliances, nationalism, and imperialism

On the 28th of June 1914, Ferdinand had selected a Serbian national holiday to parade through Sarajevo, the capitol of Bosnia. Gavrilo Princip, along with the rest of 'Young Bosnia ' (a group made up of young Serbs, Croats and Bosnians who wanted unification of the Slavs) shot and killed Ferdinand. Despite the group being primarily based in Bosnia and the fact that Princip was a Bosnian by birth, Austria-Hungary concluded that Serbia must have been

could not be blamed on Germany entirely. Every nation that was involved in world war one was partly responsible for the outbreak. According to Fischer, when Franz Ferdinand was assassinated Germany encouraged Austria Hungary to start a war against Serbia. Germany gave Austria Hungary a blank cheque to attack Serbia meaning they would support Austria Hungary in whatever they would do. Many historians such as Fritz Fischer have argued that Germany had a strong desire for power which led to the outbreak

Crisis of 1914 On June 28th, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne paraded through the streets of Sarajevo. Ignoring all threats of assassination, the archduke returned to the Apple Quay where his immortality was finally challenged. Gavrilo Princip, a member of the allusive Black Hand, fired several shots into the motorcade of the archduke, killing both Ferdinand and his beloved wife Sophie. To Austria, the murder of the archduke was the last straw. Now fueled with

Although many believe the assassination of Austria-Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip to be the main catalyst for World War I, in reality, it was actually an accumulation of many events that led to the start of the Great War. Collectively, these events are now referred to as the July Crisis; additionally, events not included in the July Crisis also influenced the beginning of World War I. The war was fought by two opposing Alliances: The Allied Powers, consisting

countries were in nonstop conflict. Tensions between the major powers and Germany were quickly advancing and always on an edge of a hill. Some people believe that the cause of World War 1 was Militarism, Imperialism, nationalism or the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Some of us would believe that these are the main reasons for why World war 1 started. The leading cause of world war 1 was the formation of alliances among countries because alliances were what made a domino effect because of the coalitions

scale never before seen. The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife was critical in setting off the chain of events that led to the First World War. Not only was it a bad day for the Archduke and his family, but also a bad day for Europe. The First World War began just a shade more than a hundred years ago. This war remains one of the most defining conflicts of modern time and changed not only Europe, but the entire world in many ways. Franz Ferdinand (18 December 1863 – 28 June

difficult to lay the blame of an entire world war on a singular country, but many historians agree that Austria-Hungary and Germany carry the weight of the blame of for the occurrence of World War I. The historians Professor John Rohl (University of Sussex), Dr. Annika Mombauer (The Open University), and Professor Gary Sheffield (University of Wolverhampton) all agree that Germany's support of Austria-Hungary with the "blank cheque" when they declared war on Serbia forced the hand of other countries

by itself and every one of them needed allies on whom they could depend . In 1879 , Germany ,Austria-Hungary formed an alliance . They were joined by Italy because of it`s historic antipathy towards