Assassination The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a job done by supporters of the Black Hand. It was caused by Serbia’s push for power. At the time Serbia had grown twice its size and gained over a million more citizens. This was a problem for surrounding countries like Austria-Hungry. The assassination was not an act of the government, but by terrorist groups that were controlling the country more than what people thought they were. Terrorists murdered Ferdinand; so what did they have against
One of the world’s most devastating and history-changing wars was caused by the assassination of Austria-Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was next in line for the throne to govern over the Austria-Hungary empire in the beginning of the 20th century, and he was rising at a very dangerous and tense time. In the early 1900s, Austria-Hungary was in a stressful conflict with the country of Serbia. The Serbians wanted the land of Bosnia, in which the Austria-Hungarian empire had annexed into their
Sparking the Great War The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand is regarded today as the moment that sparked the first international war in human history, World War I. The assassination has been disputed in the sense that his assassination was unjustified. Although some assassinations like that of Saddam Hussein have been justified, Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s was not. The Archduke was considering a new way of running Austria-Hungary and an alien form of holding power more evenly and fairly