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The Balkans: Powder Keg of Europe
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-The duke and his wife visit Sarajevo
-Princip and conspirators arrive weeks earlier with bombs and guns.
-Princip part of "Black Hand"
-Ferdinand was a moderate, that's why he was killed.
-This was an act of terrorism.
The Balkans:
Powder Keg of Europe
Map of the Balkans
Impact
The Assassination: June 28, 1914
"Blank Check"
July Crisis
-Ottomans and Austrians compete for Balkans.
-Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro gain independence.
-1909 Austria-Hungary annex Bosnia.
-Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, told the German Kaiser William II that it was a Serbian Conspiracy.
-Germany said they would stand with Austria-Hungary. A "blank check was given."
-July 23: Austria issues an ultimatum to Serbia
-Stop all anti-Austrian activities. Allow us to send in our own police
-Serbia agrees to everything, except Austrian police in their country.
-Austria-Hungary starts mobilization: Process of calling troops into active duty.
-Serbians Angry: Want "greater slavic state." Russians also not happy. They want path to Mediterranean.
-Balkan War: 1912 and 1913. War against the Ottomans, then they fight over new territory.
-Uneasy peace in early 1914.
Gavrilo Princip
Arch Duke
Franz Ferdinand
Alliances cause a domino effect
-July 29, Russia Mobilizes.
-August 1: Germany declares war on Russia, on France August 3.
-Two front war plan (Developed in 1905): Quick war on France through Belgium known as the Schlieffen Plan.
-August 3, Germany invades neutral Belgium.
-August 4: Great Britain declares war.
July 28, 1914