The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead (while travelling in an open-topped car) in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Serbian assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić.

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[RobinRc666]

Cheers for the help with my homework

[Nimbly]

He wasn't shot with a revolver. He was shot with a Browning M1910 in 7.65mm.

[sesshoin1]

All because Princip went to get a sandwich...stupid sandwich...

[xhannahx999]

@MrMeineNamen arre all the things true about what assasion 1234567 did?????????

[xhannahx999]

i need somehelp some one give me factsssssss about this

[gdinsergio]

Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian language:

Austro-Ugarska monarhija bi verovatno pokrenula rat i da nije bilo tog atentata. On je bio samo izgovor.

[1916jutland]

@TheXxVIP3RxX I know my history. No need for insulting comments. Franz Ferdinand was killed because he represented Austria-Hungary which The Black Hand and Serbian Intelligence hated. Russia always protected the slavs but stopped short of declaring war. France and Russia had binding treaties, but Britain didn't have anything binding except to Belgium. Britain entered the war because Germany invaded Belgium. When Germany declared war on Russia, France declared war on Germany.

[1916jutland]

@TheXxVIP3RxX I know how the war started. But, Germany declared war on Russia because it did a partial mobilization. The Tsar didn't believe that his cousin Willie would declare war. Germany demanded that Belgium let it's troops through to get to France. Natually no country is going to allow that. The British and the USA were signers at the Treaty of 1838 defending Belgium. The USA under wimpy President Wilson chose not to get involed until 1917 and still the US was unprepared to go to war.

[TheXxVIP3RxX]

@1916jutland France declared war on Germany as Russia had also declared war on both (France lost Alsace and Lorraine in 1870 war so they hated them) So Germany went through Belgium to get to France but Britain had a pact with Belgium and they got upset when Germany wouldn't retreat from Belgium so Britain sent men over halting the German advance and they both dug trenches to the Swiss border. Thus giving you your Western Front, World War I /endhistorylesson

[TheXxVIP3RxX]

@1916jutland read your damn history books. Serbia wanted to have Bosnia back to create greater Serbia as slavs were living in Austro-bosnia. But the only way to invade Bosnia back and take it back was to weaken it thus killing Franz Ferdinand. But Danilo Ilic told the Austro-Hungarian police that the Serbian army had supplied them with the weapons and Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Serbia called on its ally Russia who then called on Britain and France. Austria then called on Germany