<span>The election of 1800. The growing partisanship between the Federalist camp, led by John Adams, and the Democratic-Republican camp, led by Thomas Jefferson, resulted in a bitterly contested presidential election in 1800.</span>
he knew he would be talked down on if he lost the war
<span>The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand</span> lead to a direct conflict between the two powers (Austria and Russia) and further lead to the war. Hope that helps.
March 1, 1974, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted several former aides of Nixon, who became known as the "Watergate Seven"—H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, John N. Mitchell, Charles Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian, and Kenneth Parkinson—for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation