The Spark That Lit the Powder Keg: How Did the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lead to WWI?
The morning of June 28, 1914, began like any other in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia. The air was thick with tension—Bosnia had been annexed by Austria-Hungary just three years prior, a move that inflamed Serbian nationalism and stirred unrest among the region’s Slavic populations. That day, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir […]