Next thing I know‚ I heard gunshots from outside my shop and I turned to investigate. I then saw the boy with a gun pointed at the archduke and his wife. Both were dead.” Ahmed Buric‚ the sandwich shop owner proved that Gavrilo had murdered the archduke and his family. Gavrilo killed the archduke‚ but why would he do such a thing? Did he have a vendetta against the archduke? Or was he just a paid
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were visiting Bosnia‚ they were both shot dead by Serbian nationalist‚ Gavrilo Princip‚ On this day nationalism was running high through Serbian and Bosnian people‚ as it was the anniversary of the Battle of Kossovo when Serbia first lost her independence. Nationalism influenced Gavrilo Princip to first throw a grenade in the direction of the archduke’s car. Fortunately this grenade hit the roof of the car. Later on that day‚ Princip attempted to shoot Franz Ferdinand and his wife and succeeded. This
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the planned route through the city‚ where Ferdinand was sure that there would be more attacks. On the way back running into Gavrilo Princip‚ and assassinating the archduke and his wife. “Gavrilo Princip‚ a national hero prior to Yugoslavia’s early 1900’s disintegration into warring fractions was now considered a criminal terrorist by Bosnia” (Devoss). This shows that Gavrilo was a hero‚ but ended in terror at the start of World War
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The assassination of the Franz Ferdinand‚ the Austrian Archduke‚ happened in Sarajevo 28th June 1914 and the beginning of the First World War that happened afterwards had a great impact on the world history. There has been many research of the reasons and the beginning of the First World War‚ as well as of the assassination and its consequences. There are many studies about these two important events in national and international history. Although‚ the paper will not deal with the reasons of the
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themself has a part of Russia. The AFF had being assassinated with his wife‚ Sophie Chotek von Chotvoka. The 28th was their weeding birthday and also the national day of Serbia. The AFF and his wife have been assassinated by a young Serbian‚ Gavrilo Princip. Gavrilo Princip shouted twice and killed the AFF and his wife. He did not know that what he had just done was the break out of one of the bloodiest war in the world history. The assassination of the AFF and his wife is a short cause; it was the matchstick
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What caused the First World War? Historians have many theories about how the First World War started‚ although most believe that there were three fuses and one spark! The first world war broke out in 1914 and involved mainly Austria-Hungary‚ Germany‚ Russia‚ France and Britain. Most of the causes were long-term‚ such as the rivalry of the European countries‚ however there was one short term cause which triggered the start of the chaos that was the First World War. The first fuse was that of empires
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Was Germany to Blame for World War One? One hundred years after the brutal bloodshed of World War One‚ the conflict which involved almost every country in the world‚ is still known as “The Great War". The number of casualties in World War I‚ both military and civilian‚ totals to around 37 million: 16 million deaths and 21 million wounded. Around 9.7 million military personnel and 6.8 million civilians were killed‚ not to mention those who went missing or were never found. A question that still lingers
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1939. The main reason World War I was caused was because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He and his wife had arranged to tour Sarajevo‚ Bosnia and Herzegovina. As the couple rode through Sarajevo on June 28‚ 1914‚ a man named Gavrilo Princip fired two shots at them.
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World War I is one of the most memorable war of all time. According to pbs.org at least 8‚528‚831 soilders had died in the war and 21‚189‚154 people were severely wounded. This war was between two armies‚ the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. The Triple Alliance was the alliance between Germany‚ Austria-Hungary and Italy while the Triple Entente was between Great Britain‚ France and Russia. This war began on July 28th‚ 1914. This war all started with the assassination of Mr. Franz Ferdinand
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It all started on June 28th‚ 1914 when the Archduke of Austria-Hungary was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist known as Gavrilo Princip. Princip was part of a group called the Black Hand and they wanted two main things from Austria-Hungary. They wanted more autonomy for Serbia and for the province Bosnia that was inside of Austria-Hungary to be annexed to Serbia instead. After all the commotion and assassination of Franz Ferdinand‚ Austria-Hungary decided to declare war on Serbia. Many other countries
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