The morning of June 28^th, 1914 the archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife had survived an attempted assassination attack. A bomb was thrown at the vehicle they were in and it bounced off the car before it exploded. The bomb exploded after it bounced off the car and it injured two officers in a different car. The archduke was unfazed by the attack and later attended a ceremony, and also visited the injured soldiers in the hospital. A man by the name Gravrillo Princip, a second assassin, was only nineteen years old, and he had no idea what his actions would cause. The boy took out a pistol and shot the archduke multiple times. The first shot had hit his wife in the stomach area, and she was dead on the spot. The second bullet hit the archduke very close to the heart. He died a slow painful death.

Due to the assassination of the archduke, people called for a great war, later known as World War 1. But the assassination was not the main reason for the calling of the war, because there were many other reasons that existed before 1914. Some of the causes included imperialism, militarism, nationalism, and a bunch of messed up alliances.

 

The Americans had seen that the world was going to into a war and they took the news with alarm. Most Americans opposed to the central powers. Many Americans had traced their roots to Europe. These people had hoped that their country roots would soon be destroyed. For that reason, they favored the alliances over the central powers.