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ELI5: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria gets assassinated, how did this trigger World War I?
gpt
WWI was bound to happen regardless of whatever happened to Franz Ferdinand. The entire continent was itching to carve out new spheres of territory/influence due to competition over colonialism and dying to try out new weaponry from the sudden boom in technology. Everyone raced to make alliances and mutual defense pacts that made the political landscape a spiderweb of allegiances, of which just one thread getting pulled down would entangle everything else by way of the complex network.

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was not exactly the reason for WWI, it just happened to become the excuse everyone was looking to point fingers and go to war over.