Question

The Sarajevo Crisis was orchestrated by a society called 'X'. This Serbian society wanted the liberation of Serbs outside Serbia from Habsburg and Ottoman rule. Their main motive was 'Y', and they were willing to achieve it through violence if necessary.

Identify the organisation 'X', and the motive 'Y'.

• A. X: League of Nations
  Y: Unity of all Allied Powers
• B. X: Black Hand
  Y: Union of all Slavs under the leadership of Serbia
• C. X: Red Vienna
  Y: Preventing the Austria-Hungarian annexation of Serbia
• D. X: Serbo-Bosnian Union or Death
  Y: Dismemberment of the House of Habsburg

Answer 1

The correct option is B X: Black Hand

Y: Union of all Slavs under the leadership of Serbia
'X' is the organisation 'Black Hand'.
'Y' is the union of all Slavs under the leadership of Serbia

Black Hand wanted the liberation of Serbs outside Serbia from Habsburg and Ottoman rule. They employed terrorist methods to promote the liberation of Serbs. Their leader, Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević alias Apis, believed that the Pan-Serbian movement would be served by the the death of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand.