HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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The incident that started World War I was the assassination of
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The Prince of Germany
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Abraham Lincoln
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Archduke Ferdinand
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the King of Austria-Hungary
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Two shots in Sarajevo ignited the fires of war and drew Europe toward World War I. Just hours after narrowly escaping an assassin’s bomb, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, are killed by Gavrilo Princip.
Detailed explanation-2: -On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo. This set off a chain of events that led to war. Germany’s emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, was at the Kiel Regatta when the assassination took place. Neville Harvey didn’t immediately realise it would mean war.
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