CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 THE POWDER KEG CHAPTER 2 THE PEOPLE RISE MONARCHIES DECLINE CHAPTER 3GERMANY FLEXES ITS MUSCLES CHAPTER 4 THE LAST BREATH OF EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM CHAPTER 5 TROUBLE IN THE BALKANS CHAPTER6 DUELING ALLIANCES 54 CHAPTER 7 A CONSPIRACY LEADS TO ASSASSINATION CHAPTER 8 WORLD WAR BEGINS 80 CHAPTER 9 CAUSE AND EFFECT TIMELINE ESSENTIAL FACTS 100 GLOSSARY 102 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 104 SOURCE NOTES 106 INDEX 110 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 112
Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were in Bosnia to observe military maneuvers of the Austro Hungarian
CHAPTS THE POWDER KEG Surrounded by the citizens of Sarajevo Bosnia a young man named Gavrilo Princip stood along a road waiting for a motorcade to pass by It was June 28 1914 and the crowd had gathered to see Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the throne of the Austro Hungarian Empire Unlike most of the other people in the crowd Princip was not there to cheer the leader He had a different purpose and he had a pistol in his pocket In addition to Princip five other young assassins stood along the vehicle's path each armed with a gun a grenade or both These men along with a few other conspirators had spent months planning for this day Franz Ferdinand was everything these young radicals hated He was a royalist and an elitist furthermore he represented the interests of Austria Hungary To the frustration
