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Look at the picture given and answer the following question: Describe the incident depicted in the cartoon. - History and Civics

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Look at the picture given and answer the following question:

Describe the incident depicted in the cartoon.

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The cartoon depicts the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife Sophie on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. The assassin, Gavrilo Princip, was a member of the secret Serbian nationalist group called the Black Hand. This incident triggered a chain of events that led to the outbreak of the First World War.

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