Francis Ferdinand and wife

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Francis Ferdinand and wife

• The Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand and his
  wife in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. Later in the
  day the royal couple were assassinated by young
  revolutionaries trained and supplied in Serbia,
  igniting World War I.

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Sarajevo

• Moments after the assassination the Austrian
  police captured one of the assassins.

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World War I in Europe 
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British machine gun on western front

• A British machine gun crew in action on the
  western front. Machine guns, barbed wire, and
  trenches gave great advantages to the defense in
  the war and helped produce a long stalemate on
  the western front.

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Early Soviet Hunger

• During the civil war in the Soviet Union,
  hunger and starvation haunted the countryside.
  Here a group of malnourished children posed for a
  photograph.

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Lenin as heroic revolutionary

• Anxiety over the spread of the Bolshevik
  revolution was a fundamental factor of European
  politics during the 1920s and 1930s. Images like
  this Soviet portrait of Lenin as a heroic
  revolutionary conjured fears among people in the
  rest of Europe of a political force determined to
  overturn their social, political, and economic
  institutions.

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Steps to US entry in WWI

• January 31, 1917 Germany announces unrestricted
  submarine warfare, openly violating US neutrality
• Zimmermann note intercepted in March 1917
  (proposed German-Mexican alliance)
• Russian czar overthrown in Russian revolution in
  March 1917
• US declares war on Germany on April 6, 1917

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