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The trigger: assassination at Sarajevo
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On June 28, 1914, a Bosnian Serb nationalist named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo. Princip belonged to the Black Hand, a secret nationalist organization with ties to Serbian military intelligence.
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