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In 1914, Bosnia was part of the The Black Hand, a secret
Austro-Hungarian Empire. Many Bosnian terRorist group based in Serbia,
Serbs thought it should belong to Serbia. hatched a plan to asSasSinate
Archduke Franz Ferdinand,
the heir to the Austrian throne,
on his ofFicial visit to the Bosnian
That’s where capital of Sarajevo.
the Archduke You know
wilL die on your orders.
June 28.
For bosnia! For bosnia!

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE
bosnia
belgrade
Sarajevo
serbia

June 28, 1914. With his wife, Sophie, sudDenly, as the motorcade …but the driver saw the grenade
by his side, the Archduke prepared drove slowly past... coming and put his foOt on the gas.
to drive through the streEts of
Sarajevo. Seven would-be asSasSins,
each armed with a gun and grenades, oh, franz,
were concealed among the crowds freEdom for aAah! it’s terRible!
lining the route. bosnia!

Not toO fast, I want to seE
driver. the town.

helLlp...

The grenade bounced ofF the back to
explode under the wheEl of the car
What a lovely day
for an outing. behind it, wounding several people.
…Disaster!
Franz Ferdinand was furious when no one had told the driver of As the car stopPed to reverse back
he reached the ofFicial reception. the change of plan, and he toOk down the road, Princip rushed at it,
a wrong turn into a narRow streEt. firing his pistol.
One of the asSasSins, 20-year-old
Your student gavrilo princip, was standing
HighnesSes, we on the corner as the car went past.
are honored. death
to the
archduke!
honored? bang sophie…
they threw no…
a bomb at me! bam don’t
die…
He canceled the afternoOn’s
planNed army inspection and One bulLet struck Franz Ferdinand
set out to visit the wounded in the neck; the other hit Sophie in
at the hospital instead. the stomach. Both died within minutes.

the
Princip tried to Great war The Archduke’s Although most people By the time
kilL himself by they’re asSasSination believed that the war it ended in
swalLowing cyanide, calLing it… plunged Europe would be over in months, November
but when it failed into conflict: the fighting lasted 1918,
to work, he tried to Austria declared four terRible years. 10 milLion
turn the gun on war on Serbia, soldiers
himself. Angry RusSia came to over by and more
bystanders wrestled Serbia’s supPort, they can christmas, than
i did it... shoOt at that
for my him to the ground. and Germany my foOt. six milLion
country! He was put on trial backed Austria. if they like! civilians
but was toO young France and had lost
to receive the death It wilL alL great britain their lives.
penalty and died of be over by joined RusSia’s
Christmas.
the deadly disease, side. By August rat a tat bam
tb, threE years 1914, World War I
176 later in jail. had begun.
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