A fleet carrier is intended to operate with the main fleet and usually provides an offensive capability. These are the largest carriers capable of fast speeds. By comparison, escort carriers were developed to provide defense for convoys of ships. They were smaller and slower with lower numbers of aircraft carried.
The First World War was sparked in the Balkans in 1914 when members of Mlada Bosna, a revolutionary organization with predominately Serbian and pro-Yugoslav members, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Bosnia and Herzegovina's capital, Sarajevo.
Prior to World War One, Russia was in alliance with Serbia, Germany was in alliance with Austria-Hungary; France was in alliance with Russia; while Britain was in alliance with France, Russia and Belgium.World War One remembered: The casualties in Welsh towns and cities: VIEW GALLERY.rchduke Franz Ferdinand. It was in the city of Sarajevo, in June 28, 1914, that the chain of events that started World War One was set off. Within a month and a half, Europeâs five major powers were at war.