What happend in Balkan Powder Keg? Please give me a good answer?

I really need help. Why did this event occur? When and why?





Also, where did the Treaty of Versailes happen and why is it significant?What happend in Balkan Powder Keg? Please give me a good answer?
All hell broke loose very quickly, just because of series of previously arranged alliances...





Why? Because war is inevitable...War is the usual state of mankind...Since 3,000 BCE, there has only been 34 years in which there has not been a war occurring somewhere on the earth...What happend in Balkan Powder Keg? Please give me a good answer?
Which event or period of time are you referring to?





There was age-old rivalry and wars by the various ethnic peoples of the Balkans, that's why it was called the Powder Keg of Europe.





Do you mean World War One?


Europe was so divided, it only needed one incident to spark off a potential disaster. This incident occurred at Sarajevo in July 1914.





The murder of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo is accepted by historians as the immediate cause of World War One though serious trouble - long term causes - had been brewing for sometime.





On June 28th 1914, the heir to the Austrian Empire, Franz Ferdinand, was visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia.





Bosnia was in the very south-east corner of the Austrian empire and some people there wanted to be independent from Austria and set up their own state which could run itself.





Franz Ferdinand had been warned that his visit could provoke trouble but he ignored this advice and visited Sarajevo regardless. As was common at the time, he travelled in an open topped car.





There had been trouble at the start of his royal tour of Sarajevo when another car in his entourage was hit by a grenade and an Austrian officer had been injured. Clearly, Sarajevo was a dangerous place to be.





However, Franz Ferdinand wanted to demonstrate that his family was in control of Sarajevo and to have stopped the tour would have been seen as a sign of weakness by those who did not want Bosnia and Sarajevo ruled by the Austrians.





Franz ordered that his route through Sarajevo be changed at the last minute as he wanted to see the injured officer in hospital. Unfortunately, his driver did not fully understand his instructions and got lost.





Stopping to check where he was, the driver attempted to reverse out on to the main street. By bad luck, he stopped right by a man called Gavrilo Princip. He was a member of the Black Hand Gang which wanted to rid Bosnia of Austrian rule. He had also been behind the grenade throwing and was now trying to disguise himself among the many people who lined the streets fearing the police might arrest him. Not believing his luck, Princip pulled out the revolver he had on him and shot Franz and his wife. Both died as a result.








The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One.





The treaty was signed on June 28th 1919 after months of argument and negotiation amongst the so-called ';Big Three'; as to what the treaty should contain.





Who were the ';Big Three'; and where did they clash over Germany and her treatment after the war ?





The ';Big Three'; were David Lloyd George of Britain, Clemenceau of France and Woodrow Wilson of America.
I assume you are referring to the key event which set in motion World War I.





The Austro-Hungarian Empire had seized control of Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of their empire, which made many people in Serbia angry, as they thought it (and its large population of ethnic Serbs) should be part of their nation. When it was announced that the crown prince of the empire, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand would be visiting the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo, a group of young Serbian extremists organized into a group called the Black Hand with the intent of assassinating the Archduke.





The group, despite an almost-comedic series of setbacks, eventually did manage to shoot the Archduke and his wife, causing a number of demands from Austria, which Serbia refused to comply with. Austria declared war on Serbia, and because of a number of alliances between both nations, all of Europe was pulled into the conflict.





The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty ending WW I. It was significant in that, primarily due to French insistence, Germany was forced to accept total responsibility for the war, was forced to pay huge reparations to the Allies, bankrupting their economy, and was forced to give up all but a tiny, token military, a measure considered humiliating to the Germans. All in all, the Treaty only set the stage for WW II, and paved the way for Hitler's rise to power.