Why is the assissination of Franz Ferdinand the main cause of WW1?
It isn’t the sole cause of the war, but rather the trip latch that caused other things to fall into place. When those fell into place, the war was certainly inevitable. Let’s look at the causes in the order in which they happened. 1 The Serbs wanted independence and encouraged, at least, the assassination of Francis Ferdinand along with his wife Sophia. This caused… 2 …the Austrians to demand the right to search for those to blame within Serbia, so Serbia….. 3…called on their ally, Russia, which, in turn, caused…. 4…the Austrians to call on their main ally, Germany, which caused… 5…the Russians to call on the French for help. They were a longtime Russian ally who had loaned money to support the Russian czar (tsar). 6…the Germans saw this move on the French as threatening, so they invaded France, but made the mistake of forgetting the Belgians were guaranteed their neutrality by the British through an older Treaty of Ghent in 1837. This was done because Belgium could n
