Franz Ferdinand's Assassination relived on Twitter
Jonathan Ketchell
Two shots. That's all it took. Two shots and the delicate balance of power in Europe was no longer. Two shots that triggered a series of consequences which led to a full scale war on the European continent. The first domino had been pushed, the delicate balance of alliances no longer sufficient to contain the drive for power and domination.
At the dawn of the Great War, tensions were high. European superpowers were fighting for supremacy in a colonial world, everyone kept in check by a set of alliances. The Triple Entente of France, Great Britain and Russia countered the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. But on June 28th, 1914, everything changed.
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