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    World war 1 is a war that started in 1914 and ended in 1918, it was a war fought in Europe by France, Great Britain, Russia, Germany, The United States, Italy and Austria-Hungary. It was a very violent war and one of the major wars of history. Many expected the war to be short but it lasted for four years and took the lives of millions of people. There are many different events and causes that led to World War 1, there was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the rise…

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    With a strong sense of nationalism desiring to expand country's power, borders, and powerful armies. Conflicts and war were almost inevitable. In Sarajevo, capital of Austria July 1914, Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated. This was orchestrated by what was known as the Black Hand led…

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    The war that brought the worst atrocity in Europe. The war that caused depression, fear, and nightmares to all the victims. The Siege of Sarajevo was finally declared over on February 29, 1996. Until this day on, people in Bosnia (Southeast Europe) still remembers the tragic and the darkest moment of the Bosnian War. They have a memorial service in a community in Bosnia. Not only women were…

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    It was not the cause of World War I, but it’s the pathway that leads to the Great War. In the assassination in Sarajevo incident, the Serbian shot an Austrian, but why other countries, like Germany and France, were involved in the war? Most of the European countries were involved in the war because of the alliances they had formed with each other, which they promised…

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    Modern historians had altogether reached to the argument in which one could never blame entirely a specific nation for the outbreak of World War 1in 1914. Apparently, many immediate and underlying causes were responsible for this acute destructive catastrophe resulted in a complete chaos throughout European nations: severe damage in one’s nation military forces; millions of soldiers sacrificed, especially men; loss of countless innocent lives; corrupted dynasties; economically decline due to the…

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    Bosnia and Herzegovina created a crisis in the Balkans. The aftermath of this annexation lead, Gavrilo Princip, a Black Hand member, to assassinate Franz Ferdinand and his wife on their trip to Sarajevo. "The collapse of Europe's world dominance began with an assassination. It took place on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, the capital Bosnia, then under the Austro-Hungarian rule. A nineteen-year old terrorist, Gavrilo Princip, stepped up to the car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the…

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    LGBT community. The people who are committing these crimes need to be locked up and held accountable. About a dozen masked people stormed the Merlinka Festival at the Sarajevo art Cinema Kriterion on February 1, shouting homophobic insults such as, “There will be no [Pride] Parade in Sarajevo”, and “There will be no faggots in Sarajevo” then attacked three of the participants. No one was found to be dead. However, two were hospitalized with minor injuries and psychological trauma. “The police in…

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    deserved. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, despite multiple warnings from his security advisors of terrorist activity by the “Black Hand,” decided to make a trip to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo (Ferrera 1). The heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was shot and killed along with his wife on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo by someone working for the Black Hand (Fererra 2). The assassination of the Archduke was just because his death sparked World War I which changed the world drastically, he was…

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    the causes of the war, the major battles and countries, weapons and gadgets, and the effects of war. There were a few causes of the first world war. One of those causes was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Archduke traveled to Sarajevo to inspect the imperial armed forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina, annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908. The annexation had angered Serbian nationalists, who believed the territories should be part of Serbia. The angry…

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    already confusing topic, thus allowing him to better fulfill his aim to identify the cause and effect relationships and imbrications of the “most dramatic stages of [the] apocalyptic process.” Furthermore, by opening the book with the assassination in Sarajevo before discussing the events that built up to it, Taylor creates a nearly painful sort of…

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