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Unit 1: The First World War
Lesson
3: Austro-Hungary and Serbia
(1) Read the Assassination
at Sarajevo. Answer the following questions:
(a) How did the Austro-Hungarian government discover the
names of the people responsible for the assassination
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand? (paragraphs 18 and 19)
(b)
What did the Austro-Hungarian government say the Serbian
government had to do on 23rd July? (paragraph 19)
(c) What reason did Nikola Pasic give for not handing
over Milan Ciganovic, Dragutin Dimitrijevic and Voja Tankosic?
(2) After the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand the Austro-Hungarian
government sentFriedrich von Wiesner to Bosnia-Herzegovina
to investigate the Serbian government's role in the assassination.
Wiesner sent his report to the government on 13th July,
1914. It included the following passage:
There is nothing to show the complicity of the Serbian
government in the direction of the assassination or
its preparations or in supplying of weapons. On the
contrary, there is evidence that would appear to show
complicity is out of the question.
My dictionary says that complicity means: "participation
in a wrongful act". Was Wiesner right?
Read about (i) Nikola
Pasic (ii) Milan
Ciganovic (iii) Dragutin
Dimitrijevic (iv) Voja
Tankosic and then provide an answer to each of the
following statements. Please include any evidence you
have discovered to support your answer.
(a) Nikola Pasic and the Serbian government knew there
was a plot to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
(b)Nikola Pasic and the Serbian government did nothing
to stop the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
(c)Nikola Pasic and the Serbian government was guilty
of complicity in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
(3) Many years after the First World War, Karl von von
Bulow, the German general who organised the invasion of
Belgium in August 1914, admitted that the Austro-Hungarian
and German governments knew that Serbian government had
not instigated the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. He
wrote:
Although the horrible murder was the work of a Serbian
society with branches all over the country, many details
prove that the Serbian government had neither instigated
or desired it. The Serbs were exhausted by two wars.
The most hot-headed among them might have paused at
the thought of war with Austria-Hungary, so overwhelmingly
superior.
Try
and explain why Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia
on the 28th July, 1914. It will help you to read the following:
(a) Conrad
von Hotzendorff; (b)
Serbia; (c)
Triple Alliance and (d)
Triple Entente
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