Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Quizlet)

d) Who was Gavrilo Princip? What was the Black Hand?

Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian member of Young Bosnia, a Yugoslavist organization seeking to end to Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Black Hand was a secret military society formed on May 9, 1911 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia, originating in the conspiracy group that assassinated the Serbian royal couple led by Dragutin Dimitrijević.

a) When and where was Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated?

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in June 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

b) Who was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.

c) Why would the Archduke be a target of assassination?

Archduke was a target of assassination, because he was next in line to the throne, and was very wealthy. He was a target because many people in the Balkans were angered by Austria's annexation of Bosnia a few years earlier.

e) Why was Princip able to shoot Ferdinand?

Princip was able to Ferdinand, because he had practice in the park with a gun, and at the time of the assassination he was just a few feet away from the car where Archduke Ferdinand was.

f) Why does the narrator claim that the Black Hand "really, really, really got the wrong guy?"

The narrator claimed that the Black Hand "really, really, really got the wrong guy", because Archduke Franz Ferdinand was against going to war with Russia, claiming he would do anything to prevent it, and he was sympathetic to make a union of the Slavic people as 3rd part of the empire. Princip killed the only person that was able and determined to prevent the war with Russia.

g) What resulted from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?

When he was killed the WWI started. Then alliances started to form and war started.