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= Franz Ferdinand =

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=== Franz Ferdinand was the Archduke of Austria who was assassinated on June 28, 1914. His assassination was so powerful that people say it has completely shaped the world today because it sparked an entire chain of events including World War I. The assassin was a "Black Hand" member, he was named Gavrilo Pincip. He thought that the death of the Archduke would "unlock the shackles blinding his people to the Austro-Hungarian Empire." Serbia was a third party that provided weapons and training to make the assassination even possible. === === There was more than just one attempt at killing the archduke that day. The first was a bomb fired at his car that bounced off his car and blew up in the streets leaving only a panic and a few people injured, theceremonies were able to be finished. For some reason the car back traced its route and stopped right in front of Gavrilo giving him the opportunity to shoot the Archduke and his wife, Sophie. === === The assassinations, nationalism. imperialism, the alliance system, and militarism, are all contributing factors to what started Word War One, which was two months after the Archduke's death. Once Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, the Great War began. ===