Assassination Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Quizlet)

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in June 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.

Archduke was a target of assassination, because he was next in line to the throne, and was very wealthy. He was a target because many people in the Balkans were angered by Austria's annexation of Bosnia a few years earlier.

Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian member of Young Bosnia, a Yugoslavist organization seeking to end to Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Black Hand was a secret military society formed on May 9, 1911 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia, originating in the conspiracy group that assassinated the Serbian royal couple led by Dragutin Dimitrijević.

Princip was able to Ferdinand, because he had practice in the park with a gun, and at the time of the assassination he was just a few feet away from the car where Archduke Ferdinand was.

The narrator claimed that the Black Hand "really, really, really got the wrong guy", because Archduke Franz Ferdinand was against going to war with Russia, claiming he would do anything to prevent it, and he was sympathetic to make a union of the Slavic people as 3rd part of the empire. Princip killed the only person that was able and determined to prevent the war with Russia.

When he was killed the WWI started. Then alliances started to form and war started.