Aviva <av...@gmx.us> writes:
> On 7/2/25 11:20 AM, Noé Lopez wrote:
>> “WW1 was clearly *NOT* started by
>> Germany”[1].
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> WWI was CLEARLY *NOT* started by Germany. It was started with the
> assination of the Arch Duke Ferdenand?
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> 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, assassinated the
> heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia, and
> declared war on 28 July. After Russia mobilised in Serbia's defence,
> Germany declared war on Russia and France, who had an alliance. The
> United Kingdom entered after Germany invaded Belgium, and the Ottomans
> joined the Central Powers in November.
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> The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand[a] was one of the key
> events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria,
> heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie,
> Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb
> student Gavrilo Princip. They were shot at close range while being
> driven through Sarajevo, the provincial capital of Bosnia and
> Herzegovina, formally annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908.
>
> Princip was part of a group of six Bosnian assassins together with
> Muhamed Mehmedbašić, Vaso Čubrilović, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Cvjetko
> Popović and Trifko Grabež coordinated by Danilo Ilić; all but one were
> Bosnian Serbs and members of a student revolutionary group that later
> became known as Young Bosnia. The political objective of the
> assassination was to free Bosnia and Herzegovina of Austria-Hungarian
> rule and establish a common South Slav ("Yugoslav") state. The
> assassination precipitated the July Crisis, which led to Austria-Hungary
> declaring war on Serbia and the start of World War I.
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>
> Even Wikipedea knows thisThanks for the history lesson, I guess I should have researched this before! My memories from history class are not so good. Well, don’t let me write an X fork then :P My apologies to everyone, Noé
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