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The Causes of World War I

It was June, 1914. At tables in a humble café in Bosnia in the heart of the Balkans in Central Europe, sat thirty-five men. Most of them were young students. There were also teachers, tradesmen, peasants, and workers. All were from Bosnia, which the great Austro-Hungarian Empire had taken from Serbia a few years earlier.
These men were terrorists, members of the secret Serbian society called the Black Hand. There meeting that night was in protest against the coming visit of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand to Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia. They made their decision almost immediately. Death to the tyrant!
Later, eight members of the society were selected to carry out the sentence. They were to wait five hundred yards apart along the Archduke had to travel. Among so many, one would surely succeed in killing him.
Among those chosen to kill the Archduke was a nineteen year-old student, Gavrilo Princip. Princip was a homeless terminally ill......

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