World War I

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WORLD WAR I On June 28, 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated. He was murdered at Sarajevo, the capital of the Austrian province of Bosnia. The assassin was Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian terrorist. Austria claimed that Serbian government officials also belonged to Princip's group. For many years Serbia and Austria-Hungary had been unfriendly because Serbian patriots wanted to unite all Serbs into a single state. Serbs living in Austria-Hungary would be included. Austria-Hungary was strongly …

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…of Nations. The League was an issue in the United States presidential campaign of 1920. Republican candidate Warren G. Harding was elected president with an overwhelming Republican majority in Congress. A resolution was passed by Congress and signed by the president on July 2, 1921, ending the state of war between the United States and Germany and Austria-Hungary. The United States then made treaties with Austria and Germany. These were signed August 24 at Vienna and August 25 at Berlin.