The Smithsonian does not operate any parking facilities except at the National Zoo, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, and the Anacostia Community Museum. 1  There are numerous commercial parking lots and garages located within several blocks of the museums on and near the National Mall.
According to Sheffield, the First World War began for two fundamental reasons: First, decision-makers in Berlin and Vienna chose to pursue a course that they hoped would bring about significant political advantages even if it brought about general war.irst World War: 'the violent birth of the modern world'. The events that led up to the assassination are significantly more complicated, but most scholars agree that the gradual emergence of a group of alliances between major powers was partly to blame for the descent into war.
The First World War killed 17 million people, traumatised a generation, overturned old empires and changed the world's political order â and yet its origins often seem obscure. How did WWI start? The simplest answer is that the immediate cause was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary. His death at the hands of Gavrilo Princip â a Serbian nationalist with ties to the secretive military group known as the Black Hand â propelled the major European military powers towards war.