Question

Look at the picture given and answer the following questions:

Explain the immediate cause of the war associated with this headline.

Answer 1

The immediate cause was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist. Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia; when Serbia could not accept all the terms, Austria declared war on Serbia (July 1914), and the system of alliances and mobilisations quickly drew Germany, Russia, France, and others into a general European war.