Archduke Franz Ferdinand Research Paper

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 them. This caused over 5,000 innocent Serbish people to be imprisoned who were than later hanged for little to no reason. This was mainly because the real killer(Gavrilo Principon) was 27 days too young to get the death penalty under Austrian law(The great war. The shot that changed the war. Published august 4th 2014). …show more content…
He put the empire above him and although hated Slavs, he wanted to make it great again by making the bi-partite part of Austria Hungary into a tri-partitepart of Austria Hungary, with a union of Slavic people as a third part of the empire(The great war. The shot that changed the world. Published august 4th 2014). So when a Serb killed Ferdinand, it was a killing not only against Serbian interest, but a reason for the Austrian empire to invade Serbia, even if it meant war with Russia. Gavrilo Principon assassinated the one and only man who could have prevented it. This is why his death was