First, let's turn our attention to the morning of June 28th, 2004 1965438+ 10. At this time, a very high-end and unique bus pulled into Sarajevo station. This is also Prince Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Duchess Sophie. Naturally, more importantly, the prince is the crown prince of Austria.
So how did Francis Ferdinand, an Austrian Hans cat, come to Sarajevo? Ferdinand has just conducted a military exercise and came here for a professional examination. At that time, Austria and Hungary joined forces to form a powerful Austro-Hungarian Empire and captured Bosnia with combat effectiveness. Even Ferdinand wanted Serbia (bordering Bosnia) to be included in the territory of Austria-Hungary.
Obviously, Ferdinand's wish immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction from many Serbian socialists. This led a Serbian defense agency to draw up a very detailed assassination plan in order to get rid of Ferdinand Hans Carter as soon as possible. Therefore, on that day, seven young Serbian patriots ambushed early at the intersection of Ferdinand's motorcade.
Then, just before 10 in the morning, six cars gradually left Sarajevo Station and headed for Sarajevo City Hall. As we all know, because it was Sunday and the street community was crowded with people, Prince Ferdinand did not ask his troops to follow him to the big city in order to maintain his overall image. There are only a few gendarmes and policemen in the street, which leads to the negligence and confusion of Prince Ferdinand's security measures and gives the murderer an excellent opportunity.
So the assassination in the history of the world began like this, which is surprising. Although the first assassination failed, the second assassination, a young man suddenly appeared in front of Ferdinand and his wife and shot them with a small pistol. Naturally, assassination is not a happy event in Serbia. After the news came out, the Serbian Prime Minister was taken aback.
Since then, although the Serbian Prime Minister has made great efforts for friendship, the war broke out inevitably. On the same day, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia because the prince was dismembered by the Serbs. In the afternoon, more than 5,000 Serbian families were killed by shells.
Then, with the Austria-Hungary war against Serbia, the imperialists also issued an ultimatum to some enemies for their own interests. For example, first Russia mobilized for a full-scale war, then Germany issued a warning to Russia, then Germany, a friendly army of Austria-Hungary, declared war on Russia that night, issued a warning to Belgium the next day, and went to war with France the next day. Obviously, all the capitalist countries in Europe were involved in this war within a few days, and the First World War broke out.
Simply put, why did the assassination of Sarajevo become the fuse of World War I? In other words: Without the assassination of Sarajevo, there would be no World War I.