... Hand Nationalist.( Goff, R) The Archduke had ignored warnings of a possible assassination plot and decided to go anyway.( Strokes bury, J.L) The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was known as the lethal spark that ignited World War I. Bosnia and Herzegovina were provinces just south of Austria, which had, until 1878, been governed by the Turks. (Gilbert, M.) The Treaty of Berlin, in 1878, settled ... ...

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... in 1892 and in 1904 and 1907 Britain entered into ententes with France and then Russia. The assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 was the spark that ignited the First World War. On June 28 the archduke and his wife were driving in the streets of Sarajevo. As the car suddenly stopped and reversed a Serbian student ... ...

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... Eastern border. Sunday 28 June 1914 is the day in Sarajevo in Bosnia was the day of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - Hungry. The incident was the spark that ignited the World War One and the time Germany got involved who could then put their plans into action. As the idea was to send German forces through Belgium ... ...

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Britain was not the only country expecting war, for each European country involved had made plans. Many people had been expecting this war for sometime, waiting for a spark to set it all off. Now this trigger finally came on June 1914, where the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne in Austria, was assassinated. This set off a chain ... ...

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... ships for nothing. This caused a lot of tension between the two countries. This was a big factor in the breaking-out of World War I. To start a war you need a trigger to spark all the hatred that has been brewing up for a long time. The trigger for World War I happened in Bosnia on 29th May 1914. This was the main short term cause ... ...

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