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Why World War 1 happened? | The Real ReasonA 19yearold student at a school assassinates the Austrohungarian prince in June 1914. this one incident t
riggered the war. a war that lasted four years. in which more than 20 million people lost their lives.. the re
ality is n’t This simple, friends. when there ’s a large scale war. Like this, there is a long and complex chai
n of reasons driving it. and then there is one such incident that causes a spark. we will begin our story fro
m the year 1878. In October 1908, the Austro-Hungarian Empire annexed Bosniaherzegovina. invaded th
ere. Bosnia was under the Ottoman Empire for 400 years., but instead of getting independence, another e
mpire came in and captured them.. the people of Bosnia were enraged at this. they wanted freedom. peo
ple in the neighbouring country. Serbia were also infuriated at seeing this happen. a Happen. a 19yearold
school student, Gavrilo Princip, was assassinated. The prince of the Austrohungarian Empire.. The prince
and his wife went to visit the annexed territory in Bosnia on 28th June 1914.. they were a mere 5 feet aw
ay from a revolutionary. the young Bosnia aimed to build an independent country. they wanted to unite wit
h Serbia and build a south Slavic nation..
Gavrilo was sentenced to 20 years in jail for this assassination. during the trial, he said that he was a Yug
oslav nationalist., but during the trials, he wanted that Bosnia should be free from Austria.. The emperor o
f the Austrohungarian Empire is enraged at the assassination. in his anger, the declares war on Serbia. R
ussia sees this as an attempt to annex Serbia. and so Russia went to save Serbia. Germany saw that Ru
ssia was taking arms against the Austohungary Empire. France reached there in support of Russia and S
erbia.. This created an interesting chain called the chain of friendship. the kings and emperors annexed ot
her countries for their pride and to gain power by comparing the sizes of their empires and to exploit the r
esources in those areas. if gold was found somewhere, they ’d loot it. by the 1900s, this process of looting
was carried on by. by capitalist countries too. the countries had to spend a lot of money on their military.
so that they could invade more countries simply by brute force.. The six great powers of the time had com
bined military spending of around 94 million in 1870. by 1914, it had increased to four times. This. these c
ountries were greatly interested in imperialism. of capturing as many countries as possible. to extend their
empire. they paid no heed to the people ’s opinions. the wishes of the one at the top ran the country..
The newspapers and media at the time created an image that to enlist oneself in the army was a noble pr
ofession. labelling it as a selfless service for the country.. soldiers were shown as gentlemen, disciplined
heroes. the media started glorifying war., but not everyone fell under the influence of the propaganda. ther
e were many people in these countries who were completely against the war.. the Christmas Truce of 191
4 was the most interesting case. while the war was going on in 1914, come Christmas, the British and Ger
man soldiers came together to celebrate Christmas on the battlefield. they exchanged food, sang together
and celebrated together. but then their commanders ordered them to stop celebrating and to continue wit
h the war. eventually, World War I happened and what exactly happened then. in part 2 of this video, let ’s
talk about the countries that fought in world War. World War Ii and the countries who won. and India’s inv
olvement in this geopolitical game. watch the video on Kargil War too. and I have made several videos on
such historical education. you can watch all of them on this playlist Here. let ’s meet in the next video. tha
nk you very much for your help. let’s meet in next [UNK] Kargi war.
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