Story Board

While playing 30 seconds of the audio from the youtube clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhHwnrlZRus

Your mission is to discover the murderer of 20 million people. This is a cold case. It has been closed for more than 95 years. It will be difficult to find the killer after all this time. Your only hope will be the primary documents.

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2nd Image of a detective : http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowshot/3360563547/in/set-72157616048823537/



You will have to look at these documents carefully, analyze them closely. The website below will be your guide. On it there is the list of suspects. I have already gathered some primary and secondary documents on each of the suspects. It will be your job to analyze these documents, narrow down the suspects, and find the killer.

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Image of man with a magnifying glass : http://www.flickr.com/photos/paurian/3550755709/



When you have discovered the killer I expect you to create a video explain what he, she, or it did to cause World War One and kill 20 million individuals. The following is an example of the type of video I am expecting you to create. The killer you choose does not have to be Gavrilo Princip. You may choose whoever you like; I simply chose to create my example video on Gavrilo Princip.


While playing song without words opus number 19 http://freeplaymusic.com/search/category_search.php?t=f&i=84


Gavrilo Princip was a murderer. He was born in 1894. His father was a postman.

Murderer Image

Information on slides on Gavrilo Princip taken from : http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/princip.htm
and http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand



As a young man Princip joined a secret terrorist organization called the Black Hand. The Black Hand was a Serbian Nationalist group. Their goal was to make Serbia, a province of Austria-Hungary, its own nation. Princip was ordered by Dragutin Dimitrijevic, the leader of the Black Hand, to assassinate Franz Ferdinand.

Image of a black hand : http://www.flickr.com/photos/74528046@N00/1574135349/



Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne. An assassination of him would send the message to Austria-Hungary that Serbia was serious in its demand for independence.

Image of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne : http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasroche/2619038721/



Others were also given the order to kill Franz Ferdinand. Gavrilo Princip met with them to plan the assassination.

Image of where Gavrilo Princip and his friends planned the assassination: http://www.flickr.com/photos/beograd/1335580049/



On June 28, 1914 the plan was put into action. Franz Ferdinand arrived at the railway station in Sarajevo and was driven to the city hall to give speeches and greet the people. Those assigned to assassinate Ferdinand were waiting for him. Nedjelko Cabrinovic, one of the assassins, threw a grenade at the archduke’s car. It, however, bounced off, and exploded underneath a nearby car. Two of the people in the car were badly hurt.

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The Archduke was able to arrive safely at the city hall. But he was distraught. During the welcome speech for the Archduke, Ferdinand interrupted the mayor and said, “What is the good of your speeches? I come to Sarajevo on a visit, and I get bombs thrown at me. It is outrageous!"

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After the festivities in the city hall, the Archduke decided to travel to the hospital to visit the two people who were badly hurt by the explosion of the grenade. While in route to the hospital Gavrilo Princip spotted the Archduke’s car from the café where he was hiding. The car was driving over the Latin Bridge.

Image of the Latin Bridge where the assassination took place : http://www.flickr.com/photos/spdl_n1/2568537790/



Gavrilo Princip shot his pistol from five feet away. His first shot hit the Archduke’s wife in her abdomen. Princip shot again and hit Franz Ferdinand in the neck. He called out Sofia, the name of his wife. They both were killed.

Image of the car that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was riding in : http://www.flickr.com/photos/govert1970/3040981621/



Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne. The people of Austria-Hungaria were angered. The actions of the Black Hand were inexcusable. In their anger, the Austria-Hungarian government declared war on Serbia. Other countries that were allied with Serbia or with Austria-Hungary were pulled into the war and then countries allied to those countries were pulled into the war. Within the span of approximately one month all of Europe was at war.

Image of Gavrilo Princip : http://www.flickr.com/photos/wackelijmrooster/3826600228/