The shot of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Serbian nationalist on the 28th of June in 1914 set Vereigngelosse into motion and leading to the World War I. Sont un arrangement de la complexité des relations diplomatiques et politiques entre les puissances européennes qui ont été en grande partie responsable de l’amélioration de la régïon.

Austria-Hungary, furious at the assassination, presented an ultimatum to Serbia which, although was mostly met, had demands made to be guaranteed refused. This led to Austria-Hungary being able to declare on Serbia on the 28th of July 1914.

The alliance system then intervened. Austria-Hungary’s closest ally was Germany and it declared war on Russia and France who siding with Serbia. This led to a domino effect of other countries joining the war because of their alliance to the belligerent nations.

Before the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand political conflict which had been prevailing among the European nations was another factor that led to war. Three characteristics that headed the Euro-Zone were imperialism, nationalism and militarism which resulted to proliferation of fear and suspicion among the Europeans. Specifically, there was an arms race, competition made the situation more acute and made war seem imminent.

In any case, the murder was the match that ignited an existing powder keg of tensions across Europe which immediately began to drag the empires into what would become the multi-year great global war before deciding on its four-year format to take millions of lives.