miércoles, 23 de julio de 2008

Now, I have a ….
Now I have a question or you to think… but think!
Why did the Black Hand kill Archduke Ferdinand? And the last question that comes to my mind… can you explain how the assassination led to the European war?



Black Hand is officially known as Unification or Death, was a secret society founded in Serbia in May 1911, as part of the Pan-Slavism nationalist movement, with the intention of uniting all of the territories containing South Slav populations (Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, Slovenes, etc) annexed by Austria-Hungary. This society's possible connections to the June 28, 1914 assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria is considered to have been the main catalyst to the start of World War I. The political objective of the assassination was to break Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces off so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. Serbian military officers are believed to have played a part in organizing the attack. The bombing and murders of June 28 led to the outbreak of World War I a month later. And the map clearly shows how the countries were in a way “obliged” to act as they did because of their strategically geographical positions.

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