WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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The explosion of The Battleship Maine.
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The mistreatment of the people in Cuba.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -When it was learned that the heir-apparent to the Austrian throne, Franz Ferdinand, was scheduled to visit Sarajevo in June of 1914, the Black Hand decided to assassinate him because of his perceived threat to Serbian independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -The assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 was the immediate cause of the First World War. For four years, the great European powers fought a gruesome battle. Gavrilo Princip is arrested. Sarajevo, 28 June 1914.