Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated in 1914

Marking The Beginning Of World War 1


Franz Ferdinand (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince ofHungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.[1]

His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia. This caused the Central Powers(including Germanyand Austria-Hungary) and the Allies of World War I (countries allied with Serbia or Serbia's allies) to declare war on each other, starting World War I.[2][3][4]

Using banknotes as wallpaper during hyperinflation, Germany (1923)

8 year old coal miner - 1900's

Grand Review of Union Armies After the Civil War (May, 1865)

The writer George Orwell poses with the puppy during the Spanish Civil War. Behind him is Ernest Hemingway (1937)

A Marine rifleman views the result of the American bombardment of Naha, Okinawa, Japan, on June 13, 1945

Imperial Japanese Army in China 1937

A Panzer III tank crewman surrenders to an advancing British soldier during the Battle of El Alamein, 1942

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and King George V of Great Britain in Berlin, 1913

Hollywood Blvd 1953

Piccadilly Circus, London (1939)

World War I, British soccer team with gas masks, 1916

Soviet soldiers in camouflage winter uniforms line up along the roof of a house in Stalingrad, in January of 1943

A woman in Chicago was arrested for wearing too short swimsuit (1922)

1915, British soldiers on motorcycles in the Dardanelles, part of the Ottoman Empire, prior to the Battle of Gallipoli.

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Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest - August 1939..

A Working Tugboat In Greece..

A Second Hand Mobile Phone Market In China..

Teenage fighters during the Warsaw uprising in Poland in 1944

A Lighthouse Is A Great Symbol Of The Strength Of Individualism..

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