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A 4 page paper which examines the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and its relationship to the beginning of WWI.
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or any other serious war, there is often one thing that triggers long lived tensions and thus war ensues. Such was the case in WWI with the assassination of archduke
Franz Ferdinand. There were many tensions that existed prior to his assassination, but it was his assassination which triggered the war, his assassination that served as an excuse, and perhaps
the last straw, so to speak, which led to the First World War. The following paper examines the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and its relationship to the start of WWI.
Assassination Under the rule at the time of the assassination, "the old Austrio-Hungarian Empire was built by conquest and intrigues, by sales and treacheries" (The Assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand). Franz Ferdinand was a man who many believed would make this empire even more harsh and oppressive and these people fought against such an outcome. However, it has
been noted by some that the changes Ferdinand wished to implement may have saved the nation, but "While such radical reforms might have saved the empire, they were not popular
among those with vested interests in the existing structure" (Franz Ferdinand). Clearly there were many who were opposed to the rule of Ferdinand and they took action. "Seven conspirators
joined the crowd lining the Archdukes route to City Hall" and were successful in killing not only Franz but his wife Sofia, who was pregnant (Assassination of an Archduke, 1914).
As one author notes, "Although the causes of WWI are very convoluted, it is safe to say that these two deaths in Sarajevo provided the spark that ignited the flames
of that war" (Pendleton). Prior to the assassination of Ferdinand we can see that there was a great deal of political conflict between one European nation or another for
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