ASSASSINATION IN SARAJEVO
The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne who was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The belief that a country should build a strong military and be ready to use it.
What is Militarism?
The alliance that included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
What is the Triple Alliance?
Germany and Austria-Hungary were most worried about this country attacking them.
What is Russia?
The event historians consider the trigger that started World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The 19-year-old Bosnian Serb nationalist who carried out the assassination.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
The system where countries agree to defend one another.
What are Alliances?
The alliance made up of Britain, France, and Russia.
What is the Triple Entente?
Germany and Austria-Hungary were required to do this if one was attacked.
What is come to each other’s defense / go to war to protect each other?
Bosnia had been annexed by this empire before the assassination.
What is Austria-Hungary?
The secret nationalist organization connected to the assassination plot.
What is the Black Hand?
When a nation expands its power by creating colonies or empires.
What is Imperialism?
This large Slavic country supported other Slavic nations in the Balkans.
What is Russia?
From 1908–1913 military spending among European countries did this.
What is increased?
Nationalists wanted Bosnia to unite with this country.
What is Serbia?
This strange event helped make the assassination possible when the driver accidentally stopped the car near Princip.
What is the driver taking a wrong turn and stopping near Princip?
Strong pride and loyalty to one's nation, often at the expense of others.
What is Nationalism?
The region known as the “Powder Keg of Europe.”
What are the Balkans?
The political cartoon called “The Boiling Point” shows these countries sitting on a pot ready to explode.
What are Britain, France, Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary?
Two countries that spent the most on their militaries by 1913.
What are Russia and Germany?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand held this political position in the Austro-Hungarian Empire,.
What is heir to the throne?
A misguided belief that war is good for nations, and that the best way to fight a modern war was to attack.
What is militarism?
This country attacked Serbia first after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
What is Austria-Hungary?
While Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were traveling through Sarajevo in a car, Gavrilo Princip carried out the assassination by doing this.
What is shooting them with a pistol?
Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand because he believed Austria-Hungary unfairly controlled Bosnia and wanted Bosnia to unite with this neighboring country to form a larger Slavic nation.
What is Serbia?