This gallery contains images relating to the Assassinations of Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie.
This gallery contains images and news clips pertaining to the alliances that divided the major powers of Europe in the early 20th Century.
This is a gallery of news headlines that serve up in small bites the ultimatums and diplomatic wranglings, which occurred in late July and early August 1914, and which immediately preceded the various declarations of war.