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Franz Ferdinand was an Austrian archduke and a Hungarian and Bohemian prince. His assassination led to the start of World War 1.
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Wilhelm II, the German Kaiser (emperor) and the king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I. He gained a reputation as a swaggering militarist through his speeches and ill-advised newspaper interviews.
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Gavrilo Princip was a Serbian nationalist who became the catalyst for World War I when he assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914. The murder started a chain reaction that led to the beginning of the war only one month later.
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Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, led America through World War I and crafted the Versailles Treaty's "Fourteen Points," the last of which was creating a League of Nations to ensure world peace.