On July 4, 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, and ... Kaiser Wilhelm believed that a similar show of unconditional German support would again keep Russia from ...

In 1883, while still only the callow crown prince, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, and his almost exact contemporary Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Habsburg empire, ... Franz Ferdinand and Wilhelm ...

Wilhelm was the last German emperor (Kaiser) ... Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, Wilhelm encouraged the Austrians to adopt an uncompromising line against Serbia, ...

Franz Ferdinand’s nephew Charles I was crowned emperor in 1916 but he had to abdicate and Austria became a republic. ... paranoid and expansionist Kaiser Wilhelm II ...

Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie leave Sarajevo City Hall on June 28, ... with its Kaiser Wilhelm II -- an ambitious expansionist ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Archduchess Sophie of Austria moments before they were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on 28th June, 1914. The assassination was a key trigger for the outbreak of WW1.

The Graf & Stift touring car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated on June 28th, 1914, ... In particular, people wonder why Kaiser Wilhelm II decided not to go to Vienna.

Christopher Clark counters John Röhl’s thesis that Wilhelm II was bent on war and had the authority to bring it about with the argument that the Kaiser was a scatterbrain who was not the ...

Franz Ferdinand's visit in 1914 exacerbated resentments that were still raw. To make matters still worse, the choice of June 28 for a visit to Sarajevo was particularly galling.

The First World War was instigated by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but it’s no small miracle that a general European war didn’t happen earlier. Here are 7 international ...