World War I

World War I It was "The War To End All Wars,"- a senseless slaughter that set the stage for the bloodiest century in human history. Yet, it was more than just a war between nations. It was a war between what was and what was to be. The "old world" was dying, and the new world had yet to be born. People of all classes and nations saw it as some great cleansing fire …

…war broke out as the result of calculations and miscalculations made in the weeks following an incident in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, on June 28, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew and heir to the Habsburg Emperor Franz Josef, and his wife, the Countess Sofia, were in the city for the summer maneuvers of the Austro Hungarian army. Members of "Young Bosnia," a secret society dedicated to liberating Slav lands from Habsburg rule, had laid plans for their assassination.