Source B: The last photograph of Franz Ferdinand taken shortly before his death.Įven though someone had just tried to kill him, the Archduke decided to carry on with his royal visit. The damaged car was pushed onto the pavement. The bomb bounced underneath the next car in the procession and injured about 20 people.
ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND ASSASSINATION DRIVER
The driver saw the bomb coming and accelerated his car so it missed him.
At 10.10 am a tall man wearing a long black coat and hat threw a hand grenade and at the Archdukes car. Security was lax as there were no soldiers on duty and only a few police. They were visiting Sarajevo to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Franz Ferdinand visits Saravejoįrom the beginning of their visit the royal couple were cheered everywhere they went. They decided the best time and place to do this was when he visited Sarajevo with his wife Sophie on the 28th June 1914. In order to achieve this it was decided to assassinate the Archduke. A secret terrorist organisation called the Black Hand was set up in Serbia with the aim of freeing all Slav people. Their fellow Slavs in Serbia encouraged this unrest. Many of these Slavs wanted to break away from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and set up their own country. The large Austro-Hungarian Empire contained many different nationalities, including millions of Slavs. Source A: Archduke just before he was assassinated, 1914.
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The key event, which started this chain reaction was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The events that took place in Sarajevo in 1914, unleashed a series of events that finally lighted a fuse which would explode into the First World War. Tension had been rising between the European powers for many years. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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