A Begining of World War 1

Ww1 was one of our biggest events in American history,many lives were lost during the war, the war did a lot of damage to both families and to the battlefield, the war lasted for about 4 years. The war actually ended up starting after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Heir and his wife Sophie was shot to death on June 28, 1914, this event was the beginning of the first world war. The war was virtually unpredicted in the slaughter, carnage and destruction World War 1 was one of the great watershed of the 20th century political history. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties in Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey, it resulted in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War 2. With Serbia already much aggrandized by two balkan wars 1912-1913, Serbian nationalists turned their attention back on the idea of liberating the south slavs of Austria- Hungary. Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic, head of Serbias military intelligence, was also, under the Alias Apis head of the secret society Union or Death, pledged the pursuit of the pan- Serbian ambition. Believing that the Serbs cause would be served by the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Heir presumptive to the empire Franz Joseph, and learning that the Archduke was about to visit the Bosnia on a tour of military inspection, Apis planned his assassination. Nikola pasic, the Serbian prime minister and the enemy of Apsi, heard of the plan and warned the austrian government of it, but his message was too cautious to be understood. At 11:15 on June 28, 1914 in the Bosnasian capital, sarajevo, Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead by a Bonsasian Serb, Gavrilo Princip. The chief of Austrio- Hungarian general staff, Franz, Graf (Count) Conrad Von Hotzendorf, and the foreign minister Leopold Graf Von Berchtold saw the crime as the occasion for measures to humiliate Serbia and so to enhance Austria- Hungarys prestiege in the Balkans. Conrad had already ( October 1913) been assured By William the second of Germanys support if Austria-Hungary should start a preventive war against Serbia. This assurance was confirmed in the week following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, before william, on July 6, set upon an annual cruise to the North Cape of Norway.

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