History of the United States II / Unit 8 USH2 1056 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Archduke's Assassination
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The idea
On June twenty-eighth, nineteen fourteen, Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, setting off the crisis that began the war.
In practice
Alliance obligations pulling one European power after another into war.
Where people slip
The anchor's point is the alliances: a single killing became a general war because each power was bound to others.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
- Nothing. This is a starting point.
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