HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Serbia tried to take more of Austria-Hungary’s land.
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Serbia burned their flag.
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Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were killed.
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Serbia won more Olympic medals.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. A month later, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and Europe rapidly descends into chaos.
Detailed explanation-2: -But the deeper reason was the contest for power in the Balkans. Both Austria and Serbia had their sights set on acquiring the remains of the collapsing Ottoman Empire. With Franz Ferdinand’s death, Austria had the pretext it wanted to put the smaller and weaker Serbians in their place.
Detailed explanation-3: -World War I, also known as the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
Detailed explanation-4: -The plotters hoped that by killing Franz Ferdinand, they would provoke the Austro-Hungarian Empire to declare war on Serbia. That is when their supportive friend Russia, they hoped, would leap to the defense of Serbia, defeat the Habsburg armies, and help the Bosnian Serbs win their independence.
Detailed explanation-5: -Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August.