How did the assassination of Franz Ferdinand lead to World War I?

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I’m not a history buff, and all I know is that his death set off a Rube Goldberg machine of Politics that led to everyone fighting everyone else. Can someone simplify it for me?

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I’m not sure the war took people by surprise, although the precise chain of events must have. Novels predicting a war between the UK and Germany had been popular in Britain for years — even Saki (H.H. Munro), a comedy-of-manners specialist, published one.

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