The Causes of World War I If you were to look back at WWI, you would see that there were direct and indirect causes to the war. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was an immediate cause. Gavrilo Princip, working with a Serbian anti-Austrian secret society called “The Black Hand” shot Archduke Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 in order to make way for a Slavic revolution. The assassination didn’t do as Princip hoped, and it was used …showed first 75 words of 520 total…

…showed last 75 words of 520 total…Russian nationalists wanted to unite the Serbs and to protect them. This was just one of the many causes of war. As you can see, there was no avoiding the war. Even if you could have fixed one problem, there were still many others to fix. Too many problems involved for any two nations to fix. If that weren’t enough, there were six nations involved, all contributing to the problems and difficulties of war.