Hard to believe 100 years ago the world was at war, one of the deadliest known to man. What made it deadly was the fact the tactics had been unchanged for decades, even centuries, yet the technology of war had advanced. World War 1, or the Great War as it was called then, saw many […]
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World History
On this day, one hundred years ago, the first shot of World War 1 was fired by the Austro-Hungarian military as it prepared to invade against Serbia over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. This simple action led to a disastrous chain of catastrophic events plunging the world into total war. With militarism, […]
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100 Years Ago Today
It was a hundred years ago today that motions were set in place which would bring about one of the deadliest wars in history. June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Fredinand and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated in Sarajevo. Their killer was part of a group called the Malada Bosna (Young Bosnia). This action had a […]
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