how the assassination of one person sparked the start of WW1
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Essentially, The Industrial Revolution left all the major players in Europe with better solutions for logistics and the means to produce military equipment en masse in order to muster and outfit large standing armies. Colonial holdings amongst the Great Powers were frequently being disputed and squabbled over creating a general atmosphere of tension. Germany notably was extremely militaristic due to residual effects of the military caste social structure in the HRE.
With economic tensions all around and almost all of Europe’s leaders at each other’s throats as it was, Serbia began having a nationalist movement shortly after the conclusion of the Balkan Wars, which ultimately led directly to the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Franz Ferdinand’s public assassination, and then war.
It was almost inevitable when you consider all the factors as a whole
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