Multiple choice general knowledge history

After the assassination of whom did the war trigger immediately

  1. Chancellor Bismarck

  2. Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  3. Wilhelm II

  4. Gavrilo Princip
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Explanation

Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo was the immediate trigger for World War I. His death set off a chain reaction of alliances and declarations of war. Gavrilo Princip was the assassin who killed him, not the person whose death triggered the war. Chancellor Bismarck was a 19th-century German leader, and Wilhelm II was the German Kaiser during WWI but was not assassinated.

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