Franz Ferdinand

M.A.I.N had a huge impact leading to the first world war; however, the fighting didn’t then start until the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand which was known as the short-term trigger event that ignited the world war. Franz and his wife were assassinated by a Serbian nationalist, in order to "free counties from Austrian-hungry rein"

This assassination was significant because Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the only air to the AustriaHungarian empire, due to this, in anger Germany declared war on Serbia Due to the Alliance that Serbia had with Russia, Germany than also declared war on Russia which then intern lead the long web of alliances to be put into play