Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Why did WW1 Break Out?
- Immediate - Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Spark that started war
- Sarajevo - Bosnia
- Taken over by Austria-Hungary in 1908
- Inspecting Military with Wife
Sophie (pregnant)
- Wore 7 badges and bulletproof vest for luck
- Third assassin threw a bomb but forgot about timer.
- Tried to kill himself in shallow river
- Car turned wrong way, Gavrilo Princip killed both Sophie, and Ferdinand
- Long Term - Economic Rivalry
- Germany and Britain
- Germany had rapid industrialisation, products rivalled with Britain's.
- Britain introduced Dreadnought and then Germany copied.
- Britains Economic strength failing. USA and Germany's selling of steel and coal.
- France and Germany
- France had to import coal from other countries as Germany took Alsace-Lorraine