The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated on June 28th, 1914. An assassin named Gavrilo Princip shot Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip belonged to Bosnian-Serb terrorist group called “The Black Hand”, which was coordinated by Danilo Ilić. Serbian military officers also stood behind the plans of attack. The assassins motives were later associated with a movement known as “Young Bosnia”.
When deciding who was responsible for starting World War One, the instigator of the first major conflict must be established. With growing ethnic nationalism, Serbia ached for independence. Serbia felt mistreated by Austria-Hungary government and a terrorist group called “The Black Hand” decided that they were going to do something to show their displeasure. On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princep, a member of the Black Hand, assassinated the archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. This assassination was the first in a chain of events that ultimately led to war for all countries.
On July 29,1914, Russia announced that to keep its ally, Serbia, they would order a full mobilization of its militants. From August first to August third Germany declared war on Russia due to a treaty with Austria-Hungary; and Germany declared war on France, which was Russia’s ally. From there on, more countries joined to keep alliances. By the end of the war, more than 30 nations had joined World War 1. A key player was Germany.
HISTORY PPT Fourty days 28 june 1914 The Balkan states of Bosnia and Herzegovina, had been annexed (took control by force) from Turkey and taken into the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This was strongly resented by many Serbs and Croats and a nationalist group, The Black Hand, was formed. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and his wife, had decided to inspect Austro-Hungarian troops in Bosnia. The date chosen for the inspection was a national day in Bosnia. The Black Hand supplied a group of students with weapons for an assassination attempt to mark the occasion.
* War in the Balkans. Spreading of Wars NB: Alliances – opposed When Serbs were under attack, they asked Russia for help. Russia was sympathetic and said yes. Tsar Nicholas II MOBILISED Russia 29th July to help Serbia – THIS STARTED THE COUNTDOWN FOR THE FIRST WORLD WAR. 5....30th July | When Kaiser heard that Russia was getting ready for war (Mobilising) he asked Tsar Nicholas to stop.
Also Austria-Hungary’s king and family visited Sarajevo- Bosnia was assassinated by conspirator Gavrilo Princip Austria striked back in revenge. But the most important came from countries distrust for one another because it led the Great powers of Europe-Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Britain, France, and Russia signed treaties pledging to defend one another. These alliances were intended to promote peace by promoting powerful combinations that no one would dare to attack. But 2 huge alliances emerged in the end. France longed to avenge its defeat in Franco-Prussian War, Bismarck signed treaties with other powered thinking they wouldn’t attack Germany alone.
The consequences and the lives lost in the Vietnam War classify as bad judgment by the masterminds of it. McNamara and all the others involved were clueless about Vietnam; all they thought they had to do was use their military superiority in the correct way to keep communism from spreading. The most crucial mistake McNamara made was when he had doubts about the United State’s possibilities of actually winning the war and did nothing about it. He did not want to argue to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson that we should have withdrew from Vietnam. By doing this, more cities were destroyed, approximately 58,000 dead American causalities, and countless more Vietnamese.
It has been argued even further to say it was time well worth spending in Iraq and Vietnam. When analyzing these points one must understand that at that point in time America was deathly scared of communism and instilled an idea in their heads that if not for entering the war at that moment, then communism would make its way around to other countries and finally reach America. However, our government made the fatal mistake of failing to look in the long run and see that America was already a strong nation and by entering a war that would not certainly end communism the government weakened every aspect of the economy. In accordance, Iraq was completely uninvolved in the terrorist attack on 9/11, the accusation of concealing “weapons of mass destruction” was completely false, and having now realized that the only weapons they did have were from a purchase from the United States to them several years
Although the Americans managed to win it was a turning point for the Americans, that they could not win this war. (b) Explain why the methods used by the Americans to try and defeat the Viet Cong were unsuccessful Many unique tactics approached the Americans by the Viet Cong guerrillas during the war, which unfortunately for them killed 11% of their men. The Viet Cong had many tactics such as putting explosives under the ground so the Americans would blow up, they also camouflaged into the Vietnamese peasants by wearing no uniform and they also camouflaged into the environment and launched many surprise fights which would therefore keep the Americans up all the time not enabling them to get any rest for energy to fight. The Americans were completely naïve to all theses guerrilla tactics and their tactics, which were more successful on an open field battle, where no one could hide or place booby traps or camouflage because everyone wore uniform’s and the Americans had great experience fighting in these conditions, however they were useless in the middle of a Jungle. Their ‘search and destroy’ method did not win the South Vietnamese peasants over either because many times the Americans got information wrong and would end up killing civilians and events such as the My Lai massacre occurred.
They annexed Bosnia, purposely, which infuriated Serbia. As a result, Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was shot to death by a member of a Serbian nationalist group. Serbia wanted a war to start so they could bring down Austria-Hungary. On July 28th, 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia. On August 1st, Germany declared war on Russia.