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Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see WWI (disambiguation), The First World War (disambiguation), World War One (disambiguation), and Great War (disambiguation).
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
How a Wrong Turn Started World War I
Tensions had been brewing throughout Europe—especially in the troubled Balkan region of southeast Europe—for years before World War I actually broke out.
A number of alliances involving European powers, the Ottoman Empire, Russia and other parties had existed for years, but political instability in the Balkans (particularly Bosnia, Serbia and Herzegovina) threatened to destroy these agreements.
The spark that ignited World War I was struck in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand—heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire—was shot to death along with his wife, Sophie, by the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, Princip and other nationalists were struggling to end Austro-Hungarian rule over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand set off a rapidly escalating chain of events: Austria-Hungary, like many countries around the world, blamed the Serbian government for the attack and hoped to use the incident as justification for settling the question of Serbian nationalism once and for all.
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Because mighty Russia supported Serbia, Austria-Hungary waited to declare war until its