WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Three young Bosnians were recruited, trained and equipped: Gavrilo Princip, Nedjelko Cabrinovic and Trifko Grabez, who later added additional conspirators.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Black Hand (Unification or Death) was formed by a ring of influential officers of the Serbian army, headed by Dragutin Dimitrijević (1876-1917), known as “Apis”, in May 1911.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ten men met on May 9, 1911 to form Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (Union or Death), also known as The Black Hand. The seal of their group is reproduced above. By 1914, there were several hundred members, perhaps as many as 2500. Many members were Serbian army officers.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Black Hand was a Serb nationalist and terrorist group. Its name in Serbian literally translates to “Union or Death” and its main goal was the creation of a Greater Serbia that included all Serbs.

Detailed explanation-5: -The assassin – Gavrilo Princip – was a member of a Bosnian Serb nationalist group seeking to unite territories containing ethnic Serbs under Serbia’s control. Convinced that the Serbian government had assisted Princip’s group, Austria-Hungary issued a series of harsh demands, most of which the Serbs accepted.