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Why did world war 1 start?

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The immediate cause of the outbreak of World War I was the murder of the Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand with his wife by a Serb student, Gavrilu Principev, on 28 June 1914 during their visit to Sarajevo

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914, it triggered a chain of events that resulted in World War 1. After the assassination, Austria-Hungary threatened war on Serbia. ... At this point, Europe was at the brink of going to war.


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