Multiple choice general knowledge history

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, is seen as the immediate trigger of the war which war is it?

  1. first world war

  2. second world war

  3. civil war

  4. cold war
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 by Gavrilo Princip triggered a chain of alliances that brought major European powers into conflict, leading to World War I. The other options are incorrect - WWII was triggered by Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, civil wars are internal conflicts, and the Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension after WWII.

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