Croatia about the Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo (1914): the reactions and interpretations

Abstract

In this paper the author tries to explain two different interpretations of the one of the causes of the First World War: the Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo in 1914. On the one side, it is considered as the terrorist attack that led the Europe into the Great War. On the other side, it is interpreted as the protest of the South Slavs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The author analyzes those different interpretations of this case, as well as the political ideas, programmes and options in Croatia at that period.