Road to WW1

Question 1

Assassination

Archduke Franz-Ferdinand

Answer 1

28 June, 1914

• Black Hand - Serbian Terrorist Group

• Ferdinand and wife going to Bosnia
• bomb hits car and bounces off to car behind them
• goes to hospital to visit injured police officers
• driver makes wrong turn and are on the same street
  
  • stops car
• both get shot dead

Question 2

Austro-Hungarian Concerns

Answer 2

• Ethnic Tensions
• Reaction of Russia
• Need help from Germany

Question 3

Germany Concerns

Answer 3

• Two front war
• Schliefen Plan, 1905
- take on France, then Russia, in 6 weeks (Russia will take 6 weeks to mobilize big army)
- French give money to Russia for railroads
• French increased Conscription Rates
- Army getting larger
• Russia mobilizes