Reasons On The Assassination Of Franz Ferdinand

Gavrilo Princip (1894-1918) was a simple man and son of a postman also a member of the Black Hand. He is credited with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire, along with his wife, Sophie. This action was cause of WWI. Franz Ferdinand assassination gave Austria-Hungary the tools or the excuse that needed to declared war on Serbia,

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand is what lead to the immediate beginning of the war. Franz Ferdinand was in line to be the next heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne. He was later shot to death along with the wife during a visitation to Sarajevo in 1914. A Serbian group, known as the Black Hand, was blamed on for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. This event lead Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia for the assassiantion, which led to the beginning of World War 1 (History.com Staff,2009). Other WW1 analysts believe that there might be no single reason that can be attributed for the main cause of the war. These WW1 analysts think that the war might have started as a result of several other factors that lead to the buildup of WW1. These factors could included the development of militarism, imperialism, and nationalism. These factors contributed heavily to create the conflicts that led to the beginning of WW1.

The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand played a key role in causing the war due to those involved. The archduke was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914. This assassination quickly set off a chain reaction of events culminating in the outbreak of World War I.

On June 28th, 1914, Austria-Hungary’s Archduke “Francis Ferdinand, Austrian heir, and [his] wife [were] murdered (Doc 10)” in Sarajevo, Bosnia. His assassin was Gavrilo Princip, who was a Bosnian Serb and was in an organization that seeked to end Austro-Hungarian rule in his home of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Princip was said to have “fired the shot that started World War 1”, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was considered one of the, if not THE, main cause(s) of The First World

On June 28 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, while riding in an open car, had a grenade thrown at them by . The grenade missed and injured a guard who was behind their car. The guard worked for the archduke, and to pay his respects he visited the hospital the officer was in. They took a wrong turn and the associate of the man who threw the grenade happened to be on the street where they turned. 19 year old Gavrilo Princip, who was dying of tuberculosis, spotted the car and shot the archduke and his wife killing them both. The assassination was completed and a point had been made.

The assassination of Franz Ferdinand on the 28th June, 1914, precipitated WW1. He was shot by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Black Hand, a Serbian group set up to fight for the unification of all South Slav territories that had been annexed by Austria-Hungary. Two months after the shooting Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, setting off the next chain of events that brought

After two attempts, the assassins killed Franz Ferdinand. Gavrilo Princip was the man who shot Franz and his wife in a car on a busy street in Sarajevo. Austria saw this as an attack by the entire country of Serbia, and not by only the association that planned the assassination. After a month of the killing, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, starting the Great War.

Franz Ferdinand was the archduke of Austria-Hungary. On June 28, 1914, Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were visiting Sarajevo when the two were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Serbian terrorist group, the Black Hand. After several failed attempts from members of the Black Hand that day, the members were running out of hope. However, due to a communication problem with the driver of Ferdinand and his wife’s car, they were forced to turn around in an alley that Princip was hidden in. Two shots later, the pair was dead within minutes and Austria-Hungary was ready to make Serbian’s pay for what they did. Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination had different effects but the biggest one was the start of World War I.

On June 28, 1914, a Serbian separatist named Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, descendant to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Taking place alongside a background of intensifying hostilities in the Balkans, the murder set off a concatenation of actions that would lead to the start of WWI hardly just one month later on July 28, 1914. Even though the war started on July 28, 1914, U.S.A. did not intervene until April 6, 1917.

While there is never just a single event that has led to the start of a world war, or any other serious war, there is often one thing that triggers long lived tensions and thus war ensues. Such was the case in WWI with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. There were many tensions that existed prior to his assassination, but it was his assassination which triggered the war, his assassination that served as an excuse, and perhaps the last straw, so to speak, which led to the First World War. The following paper examines the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and its relationship to the start of WWI.

It all started because of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, by a Serbian citizen of Austria-Hungary and Black Hand member. A month went by and Europe was in a war that would end all wars. The United States remained in a state of neutrality until the Germans torpedoed a British ship, the Lusitania, after hearing that it was carrying arms for their enemies. The United States didn’t choose until they had good reason to- the Germans killing innocent people for an unstable reason.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, from Austro-Hungarian were killed by a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914. The people from Austro-Hungarian were really angry about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. They will go to war with Serbia. Austro-Hungarian were allied with Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. Serbia were allied with Russia, France, Italy, Great Britain. Austro-Hungarian and it’s allies were considered the central power and Serbia and its allies are know as allied power. The German start to attack France and Britain and the German submarine start to sunk some of merchant boats and passenger boat. U.S lost couple of merchant boats because they sell weapons to France and Britain during the war. WWI

A grenade was thrown at their moving car and the the grenade missed the car and rolled off. After resting at the governor's house they decided to go to the hospital to see all of those injured by the blast. The driver was not told of the change in plans and turned around after hearing it. After they turned down a street and stopped behind a line of cars, Princip, who was sitting at a nearby caffe saw them in the car, walked up, and shot both of them at point blank range. Princip was 19 years old when he shot them, at the time he a member of Young Bosnia, a group of assassins armed by the Black Hand. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia for thinking that they planned the Assassination, this event will lead to World War I. Serbia was allies with Russia and when Russia started to mobilize troops, everyone feared a full european war could break

Gavrillo Princip 1895-1918 was a Serbian nationalist who became the front man for WW1. He assasinated the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28th 1914. The assasination led to a chain series of events that led to ww1. He was only 19 years old, this was too young to face the death penalty. So as an alternative he was sentanced to twenty years in prison. He eventually died in jail in April 1918.

The assassination would trigger two world wars resulting in an estimated 98 million deaths. Oddly enough, Princip seems to be celebrated in some areas of Serbia and Croatia, seeing as a bust of Princip was erected in 2014(Monument to Gavrilo Princip unveiled in East Sarajevo n.p). Some Serbs believe that Princip was a hero and allowed Serbia to come out as winners in the war. In fact the President of Serbia stated that "The principle is a hero, a symbol of liberation ideas, tyrant, the holder of the idea of liberation from slavery, which is circulated through Europe"(Monument to Gavrilo Princip unveiled in East Sarajevo n.p).