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    Mariah Esquilin Global Perspectives Period 8 October 2, 2014 Gavrilo Princip was not only a terrorist, but he was a murder too. No one should be known for being a revolutionary after they had murdered multiple people. People were killed and terrorized, and Princip needs to be punished for the billions of people who died because of World War I. He used violence for mostly every action taken. All Princip wanted was power, and by this, there was death. Gavrilo Princip is a terrorist because he disturbed Austro- Hungarian rein of power. On June 28th, 1914, Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, the Duchess of Hohenburg. This was the spark that basically led to World War I. After this, occurred, many allies never got along. There was much tension between the countries…

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    This day will go down in history as Gavrilo Princip, a 19 year old Serbian student, kills both Archduke Franz-Ferdinand and his wife, commoner, Sophia Chotek. Franz-Ferdinand and Sophia Chotek were married in 1900. Sophia who was a commoner had children and the children were deemed ineligible for the throne of Austria-Hungary. This time was a time of tension between the two rivaling nations as Austria-Hungary had just annexed the neighboring country Bosnia. Serbia was furious as…

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    World War I is said to have been started because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28th, 1914. In referring to whether or not World War I could have been prevented if Gavrilo Princip had not assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, World War I could have been avoided. Before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, there were numerous assassinations of political and military leaders, and those assassinations did not result in a world war. The war had only begun because…

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    WWI Is Also Known As “The Great War,” This War Started On July 28th 1914 And It Ended November 11th 1918. The Reason Why This War Started Was Because Austria-hungary's Leader, Archduke Franz Ferdinand Was Assassinated By A Man Named Gavrilo Princip On June 28th 1914. Austria-hungary Was Mad About The Occurrence And Wanted Payback. People Began Killing Off Each Other Due To Alliances. 5,525,000 Military People Had Died In This War.…

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    June 28 1914, the date of Franz Ferdinand death, majorly affected world history because his life sparked the start of World War 1. Ferdinand was on a family trip with his wife to go meet with Serbian nationalists. Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist in a with a group of people trying to kill Ferdinand, was not very fond of Ferdinand ideas and how he ruled their country. The Serbian nationalists wanted to break away from the Hungarian norm and create their own independent state. Of course…

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    There are many people throughout history who have been assassinated due to their actions or beliefs. More than often assassinations were unjustified and shouldn’t have occurred in the first place, but some helped society. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir of the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was one of the people who were assassinated because of his actions. He held up the process of the independence of Bosnia from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, causing chaos in Europe. As a result, he was…

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    Underlying causes of World War 1 (DBQ) World War 1 is an important war, we learned some great lessons from it. The thing is, how did the war start. The war started from three main things that triggered and counteracted with each other. Those three things are the alliance systems, nationalism, and militarism also imperialism played a little part as well. The war sparked in the Austria-Hungary empire, when the heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a…

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    On June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, the Archduke of Austria-Hungary Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg was assassinated by a Serbian terrorist by the name of Gavrilo Princip. Gavrilo was the third of seven assassins that organized by the secret military society from Serbia known as the black hand. The reason Francis Ferdinand assassination was to keep him from making changes when Gavrilo supposed to inherit the Austria-Hungarian throne. With the assassination of their…

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    The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Principon on June 28,1914.The death of Ferdinand is not justified due to the actions and events that followed such as the way he treated his people to why Gavrilo Principon hated him. When Ferdinand was killed word was out instantly. Ferdinand had being the emperor of Austria Hungary at the time and as ruler he did not like the Serbs. The killer was a Serb so the government was angry with…

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    group to save my life from poverty . I was too poor and undereducated to get a good job . The black hand members all lived together except for Gabriel . Gabriel was coming down with some type of fatal health problem and did not want us to catch what he had. The black hand were like an inseparable family . We all acted the same . walked the same. But I came to realize that i was only apart of that group because I was poor. I could not let them know that i was only in there for the money or on…

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