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On June 28, 1914 the murder that would send the world into a crazed catastrophe all started in Sarajevo, Bosnia. A terrorist group called The Black Hand had positioned themselves all up the archduke's route. The first to act was Nedeljko Cabrinovic whose hand grenade exploded under the wrong car and whose suicide had failed when his cyanide was out of date and he jumped into a four inch river. With the bombing and the suicide flawed the other terrorists dispersed from the area, Gavrilo Princip headed for Moritz Schiller’s delicatessen on Franz Joseph Street. When the archduke's chauffeur takes a wrong turn and stops right in front of the sandwich shop the Princip was at. With his target just a few feet away Princip stands up and shoots the archduke's wife, Sophie, and the archduke killing them both. This double homicide is what started the beginnings of World War I.
"Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 08 June 2014.
"Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 08 June 2014.
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The sinking of the Lusitania ship was what eventually brought the U.S. into WWI. About one year into WWI, on May 7, 1915, a German submarine fired a torpedo at the ship sinking it in about 18 minutes. The Germans had been sinking ships for awhile during the war, but this was different because this boat was a passenger boat. Of the almost 2,000 passengers on the boat 1,100 died and about 120 of them were American. The sinking of the Lusitania changed the public opinion on Germany drastically and influenced many Americans to fight against Germany in the war.
"Lusitania." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 09 June 2014.
"Lusitania." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 09 June 2014.