How did the Treaty of Versailles lead to WWII less than 20 years later? I cannot do justice in this blog to all the complexities that lead to the start of World War I. And the war, she says, is clearly about far more than just the fate of her own family. "World War One was such a dramatic occasion.

TIL that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, repeatedly warned Viennas hardline Chief of Staff that continued harsh oppression of the Serbians would eventually draw Austria into a war with Russia and spell the doom of both empires. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary. Was there an alternative strategy? And that, too, happened in 1914."

For those who don’t get it, the first assassination attempt was at a parade and they threw a bomb at his car but missed and injured some officers car instead. The Treaty of Versailles led to World War II because its terms punished Germany too severely.

"What we are trying to do here is to ask the alternatives. Find the newest Archduke meme. Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo is considered the most immediate cause of World War I.. Franz Ferdinand was the eldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I. They were spaced out along the Appel Quay, each one with instructions to assassinate the Archduke when the royal car reached their position.

But could the war have been avoided if he had not been killed?

Well, people write books about the causes of the First World War so this is very far from a complete answer. Professor of history, Dr Holger Herwig, believes the Austro-Hungarian empire might have survived These are external links and will open in a new windowWorld War One was a tragedy with particularly Austrian roots, sparked by the assassination of the heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914. At his trial, Princip stated that: "I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be freed from Austria.

Gavrilo Princip (Serbian Cyrillic: Гаврило Принцип, pronounced [ɡǎʋrilo prǐntsiːp]; 25 July 1894 – 28 April 1918) was a Bosnian Serb member of Young Bosnia who sought an end to Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina.At the age of 19, he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the Archduke's wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. However she says the thought of royal responsibilities and the lack of personal freedom makes her a little "uptight".

"A year later, a statue of Princip was unveiled in Belgrade by the President of Serbia Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Those are the questions that have been posed at a conference at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, which has been training diplomats since 1754.For at least one person at the conference, the "what if?"

Then the archduke went to the hospital to visit the officers because he felt bad they were hurt because of him and took a wrong turn on the 98 years ago today came the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary an act which precipitated the first World War. "If you start with the wrong set of assumptions, you are not going to end well. Why did it lead to a general European, and eventually World War? Enraged, he tracked down Tankosić himself, who also told him that he was too small and weak.In 1913, while Princip was staying in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declared a Princip and the five other conspirators lined the route.

The best memes from Instagram, Facebook, Vine, and Twitter about Archduke. Black Hand, byname of Ujedinjenje Ili Smrt (Serbo-Croation: Union or Death), secret Serbian society of the early 20th century that used terrorist methods to promote the liberation of Serbs outside Serbia from Habsburg or Ottoman rule and was instrumental in planning the assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914), precipitating the outbreak of World War I.