The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

History.com ^ | 2/12/20 | Jesse Greenspan

[DallasBiff]

On the eve of the assassination’s centennial, find out how a teenage Serbian nationalist provided the spark for World War I

The start of World War I, the so-called "Great War" of 1914 to 1918, was triggered when a teenage Serbian revolutionary shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the presumptive heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie on their visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo.

Deeply in love, Ferdinand chose to marry Sophie Chotek in 1900 despite the opposition of his uncle, the sitting Emperor Franz Josef, who refused to attend their wedding. Though not exactly a commoner, Sophie came from a family of obscure Czech nobles and not from a reigning or formerly reigning dynasty in Europe. As a result, their children were declared ineligible for the throne. Sophie also became the victim of countless petty slights. At imperial banquets, for example, she entered each room last, without an escort, and was then seated far away from her husband at the dinner table

[DallasBiff]

My Mother, god bless her soul, she was Croat, said that it was the Serbs who caused World War I.

[Phoenix8]

And the west started dying….still continuing to this day.

[dfwgator]

The Great War (Best Series On WWI, Period!)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxO1lsrC98VOyOzfW0Gn8Tga

[Tell It Right]

Don’t forget some of the countries getting themselves out from under the old Muslim Ottoman Empire.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk

[dfwgator]

Don’t forget some of the countries getting themselves out from under the old Muslim Ottoman Empire.

Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia
He was an English guy
He came to fight the Turkish

[x]

Some countries did get independence from the Ottomans before the war. Most of those that got out from under Ottoman rule as a result of the war fell under British or French rule.

[rxsid]

WW1 mark.

[nopardons]

And also some got placed into the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

[dfwgator]

Motorhead - 1916
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTG6I3jxdnc

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Here is an article about the handgun used by Gavrilo Prinicip to do the dirty deed:

Click here.

Nicknamed "The Assassin's Pistol", the same type of handgun was used to kill Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana. Very good handgun, it was. I like my 1910-1955 reproduction. Nice gun.

[PGR88]

The suicide of the West

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Here's an NRA video on the gun:

Click here.

[SaveFerris]

(Archduke Franz Ferdinand)

History gonna repeat? Rhyme?

[null and void]

He signed my family’s exit visas...

[TauntedTiger]

Knowing what we know now, I’d say it was the deep state that caused World War I, and probably every war in the modern era.

[Rummyfan]

The European powers stumbled into WWI and then they couldn’t get out of it. Millions died only to have another even bloodier war less than 30 years later.

[Maine Mariner]

I agree although the CBS videos narrated by Robert Ryan were pretty good too!

[DiogenesLamp]

Woah! Are you back? For some reason I thought you left.

Anyways good to see you.