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Cause Of World War 1 Essay

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Ryland Hopkins
Mr. Dallas Jones
Causes of WWI
March 08, 2016
The causes of The War to end all Wars
The main cause of the start of World War one is the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. There were also more causes that effected and pressured the western front to go to war. One of the being the fact that Germany was moving through Belgium, which concerned Great Britain, and Russia moving into Germany.
Assassination of Archuke Francis Ferdinand
On June 28, 1914, a teenage Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, as their motorcade maneuvered through the streets of Sarajevo. Next in line for the Austro-Hungarian throne, Ferdinand had not been particularly well liked in aristocratic circles. Nonetheless, his death quickly set off a chain reaction of events culminating in the outbreak of World War I. Both deaths went down as the most important assassinations in world history (History P-F, page 1). “Two attempts were made on the archduke's …show more content…

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