Western Civilization II / Unit 14 WC2 1305 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Black Hand and Sarajevo, June 1914
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The idea
The Black Hand, officers of the coup, trained Bosnian Serb students. On the twenty-eighth of June nineteen fourteen they waited for Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. A bomb missed. That afternoon his driver took a wrong turn, and Gavrilo Princip shot the archduke and his wife.
In practice
Princip was nineteen, the witness says.
Where people slip
The archduke had favored peace, the anchor notes.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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