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Archduke Franz Ferdinand And The Systems Of Alliances In European Countries

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World War 1 was caused by multiple causes, but the main ones I will be speaking about in this paper are: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and The Systems of Alliances in European Countries. The assassination of the Archduke was on the 28th of June 1914. He was not the only direct victim of this. His wife Sophie was also murder in this killing. The other topic of discussion in this essay (The Systems of Alliances in European countries) was a MASSIVE factor not only in the start of the world war, but the reason it was so widespread. The Archduke thought of the Serbians as ‘’thieves’’ and ironically ‘’murders’’ being that he was killed by one of them. Though he disagreed with the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina because he thought

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