how the assassination of one person sparked the start of WW1
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In general, several European nations wanted a war, notably Austria and Germany. Austria wanted to keep a Balkan war localized there, while Germany felt they needed to fight russian now rather than later as Russia was getting more powerful and would eventually be able to overwhelm Germany.
There is an assassin’s nation, but Austria makes demands too insane to all be accepted knowing it will likely lead to a war. Despite Russia promising to defend Serbia, Austria went ahead because Germany backed Austria and Germany was willing to fight Russia.
Essentially post Napoleonic Europe had seen a relatively minor amount of wars. The Germany unification wars were basically it, and then crimea/ Russo Japanese, but those were kind of war away. Germany had been successful in their wars and everyone else was kind of sitting there. Austria wanted to get in on the newly independent Balkan states while Russia wanted to protect them. This is why people say Europe was a powder keg. It was a bunch of factions that wanted war and were willing to take aggressive stances to get what they wanted.
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