How it Started

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his pregnant wife, the King of Austria, triggered a chain of events leading to the outbreak of World War 1. The assassination was set up by a Serbian terrorist group called The Black Hand. After the assassination on July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Siberia with the backing of Germany. Germany then declared war on Russia on August 1st. It also declared war on France on August 3rd. It triggered reactions because of Treaties that some countries had with each other had been broken. The person named Gavrilo Princip was the one that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife and he was a Serbian Nationalist who became a catalyst for World War 1..He was only 19 years old. He was too young to faced death penalty so he did maximum penalty which was 20 years of prison back then. He later died in jail from disease in 1918.