He wants to invade me!

Watch the full video here: The beginning of World War 1 was a nightmare of alliances. Three empires - Britain, Russia, and Austria-Hungary - were trying to hold on to their power, and the German Empire had recently come into its own power. Everyone was suspicious of each other, but a network of alliances made it incredibly easy for the entire continent to end up in a massive war. When Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was assassinated by a young Bosnian Serb freedom fighter who believed that Bosnia should be independent of Austrian rule, everything quickly toppled in a geopolitical domino effect. Follow this epic tale of how World War 1 really started, as told by a couple of soldiers on the trenches.