Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Chotek were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist. The killing became the trigger for a diplomatic crisis, but the wider war grew from decisions by multiple governments, alliance commitments, imperial rivalries, militarization, and failures of crisis management.
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Why is the Sarajevo assassination best described as a trigger rather than a complete cause of the war?
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The assassination initiated the July Crisis; decisions by several states and broader international tensions turned it into a general war.
The Sarajevo assassination alone explains why the First World War became a global conflict.
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The assassination triggered a crisis, but decisions by multiple governments, imperial rivalries, alliances, and mobilization widened it.