People in junior high school history know the fuse of World War I Sarajevo incident , a Serbian youth assassinated the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Grand Duke Ferdinand and his wife. Why do Serbia people want to kill him? Our history books do not mention it, but we must know that there is no unprovoked love in the world, let alone unprovoked hatred, let’s talk about the reasons for the assassination.
The cause has to be advanced to 100 years ago. Originally, and Balkans were all territories of the Ottoman Empire. Starting in the 19th century, the local people began to struggle for independence. Serbia took the lead in gaining autonomy in 1817, and it became completely independent in 1878; Greece, Countries such as Bulgaria and Moldavia also gained independence successively.
Despite this, the Balkans still has a large area under the control of the Ottoman Empire, but the decline of the Ottoman Empire has made it a target for the division of nations. So in 1912, the first Balkan War against the Ottoman Empire broke out in the Balkan Alliance consisting of Bulgaria , Serbia, Greece, Montenegro and other countries.
Balkans before the war
The Ottoman Empire was not an opponent at all. At the end of the year, the Ottoman Empire signed an armistice agreement with the countries in the alliance. It was merged into Greece. Albania was originally occupied by Serbia, but because the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not want Serbia to be too strong, it forcibly intervened to make it independent and form a new country on its own. This went against the idea of the original Serbia. Under the beam.
Map after the war
The armistice agreement did not dry up, and disputes arose within the Balkan League soon. Bulgaria felt that it had contributed the most, but it had not received enough. Under the instigation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Believing that the army is the strongest, decided to use force to drive away the Serbian and Greek troops,In an attempt to monopolize the entire Macedonia, Bulgaria sent troops to attack the Serbian army in Macedonia in June 1913, and the second Balkan War broke out.
But for Bulgaria’s preemptive attack, the other countries in the alliance were well prepared, and after the war, Romania also joined in to attack Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire also made a comeback to attack Bulgaria’s Thrace. As a result, Bulgaria suffered from the enemy and collapsed across the board within a month. It had to seek peace and cede land. Not only did it lose all the land acquired in the First Balkan War, it also lost part of its own territory.
Serbia relied on the two wars to double its territory and greatly increased its ambitions. It dreamed of establishing a large Serbia including Serbia, , Montenegro , Bosnia, Herzegovina, Macedonia and Albania. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is determined not to allow Serbia to win further benefits. The national interests and ethnic conflicts of the two sides have become extremely acute.
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Ferdinand made an official inspection of the southernmost territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Bosnia Sarajevo as the chief inspector of the imperial army.
Photo of the Grand Duke when he was young
Six young assassins were preparing to assassinate the Grand Duke in the welcome crowd that day. They are all members of the Bosnian YMCA. The sponsor of the YMCA is the Serbian nationalist organization "Unification". Or death club", the goal of this organization is to separate Bosnia from the Austro-Hungarian Empire and merge it into Serbia.
Time of Assassination
Archduke Ferdinand has always been a dove in the empire, opposed to war and has always advocated preferential treatment to and Slavic peoples in the kingdom, increasing autonomy and right to speak. The empire became a federal state . For this reason, the relationship with the king and the army was not harmonious, and even after the assassination, the king and the army were somewhat gloating. It is also quite ironic that he was assassinated by the Serbs.
PS: Archduke Ferdinand is not the king's son but his nephew; the king's son committed suicide and changed Ferdinand as the heir to the throne according to the rank of the family. The king has never liked him. At that time, the King Franz Joseph of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was the prototype of the king in the movie " sissi ".
The family of Grand Duke Ferdinand
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