The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, leader of Austria-Hungary, was unjustified in the eyes of most people because of political and ethical disagreements. The reasons for his assassination were weak in comparison to why many high powered leaders are assassinated. Archduke Ferdinand may not have been the strongest leader, but he certainly wasn’t doing any terrible acts that would justify his assassination. Archduke Ferdinand was the leader of Austria-Hungary. The people of his country didn’t
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