1. THE SPARK
STARRING:
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
His Wife
Gavrilo Princip as…
THE ASSASSIN

2. 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).

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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 jumping
into a river.
Turns out… he vomited up the cyanide before
it could kill him, and the river he jumped into
was only a few inches deep. He lived and was
arrested.

7. 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 out
to be a bad move.
Here are their
dead bodies.

8. Princip rushed the car and shot the Archduke in
the neck. He then turned and fired another shot
at Sophie, the Archduke’s wife.
Anyone want to guess where he shot
the wife?
Why would he shoot her there?

9. Both the Archduke and his wife die. Princip
tried to kill himself, but failed. He was
apparently better at killing other people.
Instead of being executed by the tryannical
government he so opposed, they took mercy on
him because he was only 19.
He would die years later in prison of tuberculosis.

10. IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF
THE 20TH CENTURY
• Martin Luther King • Mother Teresa
• John F. Kennedy • Richard Nixon
• Ronald Reagan • Eleanor Roosevelt
• Henry Ford • Teddy Roosevelt
• Franklin Roosevelt • Bill Clinton
• Adolf Hitler • John Lennon
• Joseph Stalin • Rosa Parks
• Michael Jordan • Malcolm X
• Jonas Salk • Winston Churchill
WHO WOULD YOU VOTE FOR AS MOST IMPORTANT?

11. YOU’RE ALL WRONG!
The answer is…
GAVRILO PRINCIP

12. WHY?
I’ll explain…

13. He started World War I… which killed
over 10 million people.

14. Because of extreme hatred of the war, Russians
rebel and overthrow their government, and become
COMMUNISTS

15. Because of the harsh punishments imposed
on Germany after World War I, the country
turns to a dude named…
ADOLF HITLER

16. Hitler decides to conquer all of Europe,
start the Holocaust, and begin World War II.
WORLD WAR II KILLED OVER
50 MILLION PEOPLE

17. Because of strained relations during WWII,
America no longer sees eye to eye with
the Communist Soviet Union. This
begins the Cold War.
The world feared nuclear war…

18. We went to war in Korea and Vietnam
to stop the spread of Communism.
Vietnam killed 58,000 Americans alone.