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What event marked the beginning of World War I?
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The sinking of the Lusitania
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- The sinking of the Lusitania
- The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- The German invasion of Poland
- The bombing of Pearl Harbor
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, is widely considered the immediate trigger for World War I.
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