World War I Begins ca. 1914
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On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist. This was the event that ignited World War I. A month later, Austria-Hungary and its ally, Germany, had declared war on Serbia, in an effort to subdue insurgency in the Balkans. Russia then came to the aid of Serbia, provoking a long stalemate. The western front opened up in August, when Germany invaded Belgium, prompting Britain and to declare war on Germany, which it saw as a threat to the British Empire.
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