While Europe was embroiled in a devastating global conflict, the United States remained neutral, the reflection of President Woodrow Wilson's belief that America had no place in a foreign war. "Conflicts such as the Balkan wars increased tensions, and it kept building." "It's fair to say there was a growing amount of tension between European nations before the assassination," said Mike Vietti, marketing and communications manager of the National World War I Museum in Kansas City. Though Princip's shot was the catalyst, the causes of the war were decades in coming. The killing sparked a firestorm of diplomatic tensions between most European powers. The war ostensibly began when Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, by a 19-year-old Serbian liberator named Gavrilo Princip. Though overshadowed today by the Second World War, the effects of the first world conflict defined the remainder of the twentieth century.
It was called the "Great War" and the "war to end all wars." Unfortunately for mankind, there were even greater, and more deadly, wars to come. Third from the left is the senior British representative, Sir Rosslyn Wemyss. Foch's chief of staff Maxime Weygand is second from left. This is Ferdinand Foch's own railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne. Photograph taken after reaching agreement for the armistice that ended World War I.
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