Loading...On July 28, 1914, the first of the two major World Wars began. The war ended up lasting 4 terrible years, having a tremendous effect on Europe and the surrounding world, the disastrous Treaty Of Versailles practically ensuring World War II’s inevitability. World War I, as you probably learned in your history classes in middle and high school, was a war between the Allies (the US, Britain, France, Russia, and more) and the “central powers” (Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire). You also may have learned that the war was started because of the shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, an event that made the Austro-Hungarian Empire declare war on Serbia, which then drew all of Europe into what ended up being World War I.
But it may not be that simple. Made by Adam Westbrook, for his channel Delve, the video above talks about everything preceding the Archduke’s assassination in 1914, and how the starting of World War I was much, much more than just the assassination of the Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.