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Essay Archive - The Causes of World War 1, and the Battles
The Causes of World War 1, and the Battles
The First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not yet
discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than
what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his
wife by a Serbian nationalist on the morning of June 28, 1914, while
traveling in a motorcade through Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. The Archduke was chosen as a target because Se....
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