The Spark

THE SPARK

STARRING:Archduke Francis Ferdinand

His WifeGavrilo Princip as…

THE ASSASSIN

BACKGROUND INFO

• Archduke Ferdinand is the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.

• Austria-Hungary has taken over territory (Bosnia) that would rather be a part of the nation of Serbia.

• The people living there do not like this, and a group of conspirators decide to take him out (kill him).

The Archduke and his pregnant wife Sophie arrive in Sarajevo. June 28th, 1914, was also his 14th Wedding Anniversary, as well as the day he would die.

Gavrilo Princip was 19-year old Bosnian Serb student.He and 6 conspirators plotted with the Black Handterrorist organization to kill the Archduke. They werearmed with pistols and bombs. He was determined to free his people from the “tyrannical rule” of the Austria-Hungarians.

The Archduke and his wife are about to enter the car… for the last time.

The cars began their tour…

The first assassin threw his bomb at the car, but he missed and it only wounded the Archduke’s wife.

He tried to kill himself by swallowing cyanide and jumpinginto a river.

Turns out… he vomited up the cyanide beforeit could kill him, and the river he jumped intowas only a few inches deep. He lived and wasarrested.

The Archduke, being a nice guy, wanted to go see how the people that were hurt in the bombing were doing at the hospital. It turned outto be a bad move.

Here are theirdead bodies.

Princip rushed the car and shot the Archduke in the neck. He then turned and fired another shotat Sophie, the Archduke’s wife.

Anyone want to guess where he shotthe wife?

Why would he shoot her there?

Both the Archduke and his wife die. Principtried to kill himself, but failed. He was apparently better at killing other people.

Instead of being executed by the tryannicalgovernment he so opposed, they took mercy onhim because he was only 19.

He would die years later in prison of tuberculosis.

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WHO WOULD YOU VOTE FOR AS MOST IMPORTANT?

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The answer is…

GAVRILO PRINCIP

WHY?

I’ll explain…

He started World War I… which killedover 10 million people.

Because of extreme hatred of the war, Russiansrebel and overthrow their government, and become

COMMUNISTS

Because of the harsh punishments imposedon Germany after World War I, the countryturns to a dude named…

ADOLF HITLER

Hitler decides to conquer all of Europe, start the Holocaust, and begin World War II.

WORLD WAR II KILLED OVER 50 MILLION PEOPLE

Because of strained relations during WWII,America no longer sees eye to eye with

the Communist Soviet Union. Thisbegins the Cold War.

The world feared nuclear war…

We went to war in Korea and Vietnam to stop the spread of Communism.

Vietnam killed 58,000 Americans alone.