When Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, few could have known it would reverberate for four years of brutal war ...

Europe 1914 Before the war, Europe was bound up in two alliances that would morph into Worl War I’s Allies and Central Powers: The Triple Entente—the United Kingdom, France, and Russia—and ...