Historian to focus on start of WWI in talk at Seymour Public Library

Assassination of Franz-Fedinand and Sophie on June 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the attack. 
As Russia supported Serbia, Austro-Hungarian declaration of was was delayed until assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm that Germany would ally with them in the event of Russian intervention.


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