nd most dealt with getting back at Germany. Negotiations over submarine warfare were held between the United States and Germany after the sinking, and man issues concerned the United States (Uschan 21).The sinking of the Lusitania was only one of many logs placed in the fire of war. It was the cause that influenced and encouraged many Americans to either defend their country of fight another, in effort to gain the nation respect that Germany had offended. As many logs had spread the fire of war, the original cause was of less and less concern; the tragic events and conflicts had worsened and increased since that Sunday of June 28, 1914 (Uschan 1914).The beginning of the great celebration of the royal couples fourteenth anniversary would have never augured the events that were to come that beautiful sunny day in Sarajevo that twenty-eighth of June 1914. Austrian Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie recognized their special day with a ceremony that changed their lives forever. Ferdinand was to heir the throne of Austria-Hungary and his main purpose in visiting the capital of Bosnia was to review the Austrian troops. The joyous event was filled with cheers and screams as the royal couple, seated in the rear of the convertible, made their way through the crowd. Among the crowd were seven young Serbian men who felt that the Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina should be freed from Austro-Hungarian rule. These seven nationalists were armed with pistols and bombs. Their purpose was to shoot and kill the royal couple, but their first attempt cause only minor damage when a bomb hit the car and bounced right off, but it sent a motorcade to City Hall. On the archdukes trip to the hospital to visit any victims, a Serbian assassin, Gavrilo Princip, jumped on the car and fired twice hitting Ferdinand in the head and his wife in the abdomen. They died soon after they were wounded (Uschan 8). Their deaths were the political spark that set the fir...
