Franz ferdinand marrige
In 1894 Franz Ferdinand met the love of his life sophie at a dance. they fell in love and looked towards marrage only to find disprove of both sides of the family. Sophie was a Hier of Hasburg and the Duke of Hasburg didnt want to let Franz be in line to rule. so in order to please the Duke, Franz accepted terms and declared that the kids would be discluded from the chain of power to the thrown.
There wedding took place on july 1 in 1900, almost no one showed up. Franz only family that showed up was his step mother. none of the arch dukes attended.
later they had two sons and a daughter. there children became princes and princeses once the tragic ending of the arch duke and sophie even though there was an agreement set in place.
When ever the family attended events with other royalty, sophie was forced to stand far from the group due to the rank, this was very frustrating to Franz Ferdinand.
Franz was always a family guy. franz showed off his family all the time and loved his wife and kids up intill the second of death. his last words were "sophie my love dont die, please stay alive and take care of the kids think of the children sophie."'
Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand's motivation
The Arch duke Franz Ferdinand was planing to liberalize the bosnians allowing them to make there own decisions and vote while still maintaining Austria as its leader. these plans would have ended all hostility towards the austrains and would have been good for both side. The leader of the black hand thou was not in favor due to the rebellion plans he wanted. the "bee" leader of the black hand ordered a assignation of Franz Ferdinand in order to start a war.
Franz also looked to strengthen a Russian relation ship in order to benefit the security of there country.
Franz also looked to strengthen a Russian relation ship in order to benefit the security of there country.
Germany motivation
The Germans had many motivations to enter the war, one being that they wanted to expand there nation and maintain super power status.
Germany was always a very big super power in Europe and was always in a constant struggle to stay dominant.
after the assassination happened in Serbia they saw this as a time to take advantage and try to reinforce that they were dominate. the Germans took advantage of this and started world war 1.
Germany was always a very big super power in Europe and was always in a constant struggle to stay dominant.
after the assassination happened in Serbia they saw this as a time to take advantage and try to reinforce that they were dominate. the Germans took advantage of this and started world war 1.
Austro-Hungarian motivation
The Austro-Hungarian government was in the middle of trying to suppress Serbia before arch duke Franz announced that he would be liberalizing them in a sense letting them make there own decisions while still mainly in the control of Austria after the assignation they wanted to suppress Serbia and get revenge on the group that kill Franz Ferdinand. after interrogation one of the men that was behind the assassination they found that the organization the black had was involved. The Germans declared war on Serbia so the Austrians desired to join as well causing world war 1 to emerge.
Serbian motivation
Serbia wanted to gain Bosnia and disgrace Austria The black hand a underground group run by the head of intelligence was determined to bring this freedom to its people. The black hand determined that the best target to kill would be Franz Ferdinand due to his up and coming appearance in bosnia. The Serbians were hoping to start a rebellion of bosnia from the Austro- Hungarian empire.