On June 28, 1914, a day that many countries remember, a 19-year-old boy fired two shots and assassinated the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wife who were on a state visit in Sarajevo, thus involving 1.5 billion people in the war and directly resulting in the death of 30 million people, so why did no one sentence him to death?
The young man, a Bosnian and Serbian nationalist, grew up no different from other boys of the same age, the only difference being that he killed two people and became the 19-year-old who caused the biggest trouble in the world, which became the trigger for the First World War. Did Princip assassinate the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in order to trigger world war I? Apparently not, in 1908, the Austro-Hungarian Empire occupied Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, and although six years had passed, the local people still did not change their hatred for the Austro-Hungarian Empire and still thought about assassinating their leaders.
The heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire never thought about the mood of the Bosnians, and he took his wife to Sarajevo with him in order to get the honor and favor that he could not get in Vienna, but he did not expect that two people would die, and what people did not expect was that a great war was preparing to break out.
The Allied camps of Germany and Austria-Hungary and the Allies between Britain and Russia, because of the fermentation of various events, their contradictions have become deeper and deeper, so they have launched a war with this assassination, but even without this shooting, they will find other reasons to start a war. It's just a very coincidence that Principe acted at this time, and also inadvertently topped such a big pot.
The president of the United States at that time called Princip a terrorist for the first time, but in turn asked Princip whether he regretted participating in the assassination, he would also think that he was right, but to ask whether he thought that his actions would lead to a world war, I think he was also very confused. Princip was arrested soon after the assassination and confessed to his crime, but Princip was not yet 20 years old at the time, so according to the Austrian punishment, he could not be sentenced to death, but only sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. What seemed like a relatively light punishment cost Principe his life, and When he arrived in Bohemia, Princip soon fell ill with tuberculosis because he could not stand the harsh local environment. Young life stopped beating in 1918.