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 no historian, but my personal take is that many countries had a bunch of really efficient, new and shiny ways to kill each other and the entire world was just waiting for an excuse to use them on each other. Might as well be that reason.

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