Title: Today in history
Description: Discusses the origins of World War I with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serb on June 28, 1914. Five years later, on June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allies signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war and providing for the creation of the League of Nations.
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918, Treaty of Versailles