• zikzak025@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I don’t think it’s a question of whether Princip worked alone, just that it was a single act of violence that precipitated a great deal of change. That being said, Franz Ferdinand’s assassination was just the spark that lit the proverbial powder keg. If it wasn’t that event, it would have been something else. The conditions for war had been in place for a while, just waiting for something to trigger it.

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      2 months ago

      Arguably, it was more of a final spark on the powderkeg as there were several other things shortly beforehand that turned the family spat into the worlds problem