SERBIA IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE

In June 1914, the Austro-Hungarian army held military maneuvers in Bosnia that simulated an attack on Serbia. Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand, together with his wife Sofia, visited Sarajevo on Vidovdan. Members of the secret revolutionary organization Mlada Bosna, which opposed the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, understood this act as a provocation of the Serbs, and guided by that idea, they organized the assassination of the Archduke. The assassination of the Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne was entrusted to Nedeljko Čabrinović, Trifko Grabež and Gavril Princip, who carried it out on Vidovdan, June 28, 1914. After hard battles and victory in 1914, all members of the Central Powers attacked Serbia and retreated to Corfu in Greece. Serbia broke through the Thessaloniki front in 1918 and directly influenced the capitulation of the great powers. The Paris Conference in 1919 was supposed to resolve relations after the war and establish a more lasting peace.