The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Hungary was the impetus of World War 1. The Serbian (and Bosnian) people wanted their own self rule. They wanted Austrian Hungarian Aristocratic Monarch to leave them alone and quit ruling over them AND treating them like they were fecal matter. Rather than let them rule themselves and being nice to those Balkan Nation people groups the Austrian Hungarian people had to overreact and start killing Serbians. Then other countries were outraged and had their issues with that Monarchy and Germany's Monarchy. So the most convoluted and tragic war ensued.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by Serbian nationalists.
Start of the war, victory in Europe and victory over Japan.
It drew the United states into World WAR 2 in both Europe and asia
It prevented Europe from socially or economically recovering from the war
The event that triggered first world war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Fredinand of Austria by a Yugoslavian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. This started a diplomatic crisis which eventually started the conflict.