Question

What  was  the  immediate  cause  of  the  First  World  War?

TNSCERT Class 10 History Ch 2 First World War -League of Nations

Answer 1

The immediate cause of World War One is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on 28 June 1914. The heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo, shortly before the assault by Bosnian student Gavrilo Prinzip.

Answer 2

Cause of World War - I

On 28 th June , 1914 , the heir to the throne of Austria Hungary , Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo , the capital of Bosnia .

The assassination was organized by a secret society called Black Hand or the Union of Death .

Their motive was to unite all Serbians to form a single Serbian state.

Austria served an ultimatum on Serbia demanding eleven demands.

As Serbia did not accept all demands , Austria declared the War on Serbia.

Soon all countries joined the War.

This was the immediate cause.

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