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Who Were the Young Conspirators Behind the Sarajevo Plot? - The Sarajevo Plot and the Decisions of July 1914 | Sleepy Facts About History
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On the morning of June 28, 1914, a sequence of errors, coincidences, and small failures brought an archduke’s car to a stop directly in front of a nineteen-year-old with a pistol. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo is often remembered as a single, inevitable moment that triggered the First World War. The actual history is far more uncertain. The plot was an amateurish near-disaster carried out by young radicals, and its success depended entirely…
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