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World War One
                        1914-1919
     "a war to remember..."

Who:
 
Allies: Russia, U.S.A., Great Britain
 
Central Powers: France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey

Where:
 
France, Germany, Ottoman Empire (Europe)

Why:
   On June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne was shot and killed by a Slovakia nationalist, Gavrillo Princip, who believed that Bosnia should belong to Serbia.