On June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, who was the nephew of the Austro-Hungarian emperor, was assassinated by a group called the Black Hand. And because they were a Serbian nationalist group, the empire declared war on Serbia. Then Russia, which was bound by a treaty, was forced to mobilize which meant that Germany had to declare war on Russia. Then France declared war on Germany, and that was World War I.
9.7 million military deaths
6.8 million civilian deaths
21.2 million wounded
7.75 million missing
All this, because the emperor's nephew was killed.
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